At the end of March this year I spotted a Common Raven going into a crevice above a rock face of a local Canon City cliff area called Castle Rock (as part of it looks sort of like a castle). I started watching this area and observed a pair of Common Ravens spending time around this location. On March 27 I spotted one of the ravens inside the crevice which now had what looked like nesting material in it. I watched this area off and on until the last week in May when I spotted what looked like a nestling in the crevice. I continued birding until I heard a racket from the parent birds and the young bird had fledged. Two days later I was walking on the trail across the river from the crevice nest and spotted the fledgling only 35 feet away on a low branch of a tree next to the trail I was on. I got some very good photos of this very young bird and of the crevice nest on the cliff that I have uploaded to my Birds and Nature blog<http://birdsandnature.blogspot.com/>. I have never seen a Common Raven this young and thought some others might also be interested.
SeEtta Moss Canon City Personal blog @ http://BirdsAndNature.blogspot.com Blogging for Birds an Blooms Magazine @ http://BirdsAndBloomsBlog.com -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Colorado Birds" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/cobirds/CAAUvckoMsMcG10sOqHhj10iiMtpnfz%2B_N19ECe0PiwvyOniQ0A%40mail.gmail.com?hl=en-US. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
