A fine Saturday at the end of Summer
Posted by ravens at September 16th, 2006
It’s not often I spend a whole day at home here in Billy Wilder Square. With the exception of the early morning, there have been ravens in the vicinity the whole day. There has been one vocalizing loudly nearby for the past half-hour, which strikes me as unusual, unless it actually roosts nearby. The sun is setting, and ravens should be home at this time. It has been delightful to have ravens around so frequently. The other thing I’ve remarked on lately is that although there are plenty of both crows and ravens around at the same time, the crows don’t seem terribly interested in mobbing their cousins. Maybe that only tends to occur in the breeding season.
Only one evening after this post, and completely by chance, I caught a glimpse of two large black corvids taking cover in a billboard off BW Square. (Our billboards are double-sided, and this particular one affords heavy cover from potential night predators). The sun had already set but it was still twilight, but too dark to see them inside it. If it is what it looks like, then it’s a pair and not a gang, which is even more interesting.
ravens