We have several ravens living around our place above the Berryessa Highlands. A pair of them made their home in a big nest in a tree in a small valley below our house. We have a big sloping field below our deck we jokingly refer to as our "outdoor compost bin" onto which we bestow our leftover food scraps (never meat in the country). I enjoy watcing them in action soaring across my field of view, calling to each other as they perch in our tree branhches, and at times on our deck railing, scanning for bread crusts or vegetable trimmings.
One reason I was originally able to determine that our birds were ravens, not crows, was their distictive call. There's a good audio story about ravens at the Audubon Society website with sounds of their calls. It describes our raven couple in detail. They've been with us at Lake Berryessa for many years.
We have several ravens living around our place above the Berryessa Highlands. A pair of them made their home in a big nest in a tree in a small valley below our house. We have a big sloping field below our deck we jokingly refer to as our "outdoor compost bin" onto which we bestow our leftover food scraps (never meat in the country). I enjoy watcing them in action soaring across my field of view, calling to each other as they perch in our tree branhches, and at times on our deck railing, scanning for bread crusts or vegetable trimmings.
One reason I was originally able to determine that our birds were ravens, not crows, was their distictive call. There's a good audio story about ravens at the Audubon Society website with sounds of their calls. It describes our raven couple in detail. They've been with us at Lake Berryessa for many years.
https://www.audubon.org/news/listen-sweet-soft-warble-common-ravens-sing-their-partners