Around 10 this morning (Sunday) I was walking past the field just east of the observatory, where the recently mowed grass was being turned by a tractor. Overhead 3 Common Ravens were wheeling, giving lots of calls, checking out the newly mowed areas for dead (or soon to be dead) things exposed by the mower…a bit gruesome to think about but they are scavengers after all. One of the 3 carried off a beakful of who-knows-what back into the nearby woods…maybe to consume at leisure? Or maybe a juvenile was waiting there?
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