I have lived in Woodingdean since 1958 and, for as long as I can remember, there has been a small rookery in the trees between Nuffield Hospital and the youth hut.

Some trees were lost in the hurricane. When the Nuffield was built, this resulted in the rooks being concentrated in the highest trees by the community centre/library car park.

Every year, I count the nests and last year there were 11.

Today at 6pm, there were no birds and no nests - not even the wreckage of a nest in the trees. Can someone solve the mystery of the vanishing rooks?

-Tony Barnes, Woodingdean