There is a "rookery" in the trees between our house and the park - so only about 150 yds away. Every so often, they all (at least 2 or 3 hundred) leave the nest and have a quick fly / settle / fly around the neighbourhood. Last Friday they did it and we went outside to get a better look (and a photograph) as they settled on all the local houses (ours included - one had its bum poking from the gutter as there was no space on the roof tiles).
Now I say "rookery" with some trepidation, as the birds could be any of rooks, crows, hooded crows or whatever - or maybe even a mix of them all. My cub-scout knowledge says rooks flock and nest close to each other whilst crows tend to have solo nests - but who knows how things have changed in the modern era?
The above is supposed to be a way of identifying them, but spotting birds with "trousers" is a bit like asking them their names. I actually think they look like a mix of crows and hoodies who have moved into a rookery - thus squatter corvids if such a thing exists
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