Yesterday I gave the local #ravens a solstice gift. We’ve got neighbor crows down at the bottom of the hill, and they do an amazing job keeping birds of prey out of our skies. We’ve also got at least one pair of ravens (this summer they were a trio! Good job parents!) but they’re more furtive, since the crows will mob them too. They regularly stop off in our tall solitary Doug-firs as they sneak about the neighborhood doing corvid shit.
They’re not interested in me yet, but they’ve learned that this place has goodies. Sometimes they hang out in the paddock and investigate the horse poop. When I find a drowned rat in the water trough, I toss the corpse out for the ravens while I dump and clean the trough. And yesterday I gave them eggs!
I brought the oldest eggs from the house to the edge of the woods for the coyote, as usual. Then when I was cleaning the coop, I found *more* poopy eggs that I didn’t want to deal with, so I just set them out in the dirt of the terraces behind me for the ravens to find.
The next time I was out back, all six eggs were gone. I’m still giggling today about what a perfect magic trick I performed for them. The lead raven would’ve been scouting low over the house on the way to the good tree when suddenly they’d spot a whole ass nest of huge eggs, out of season, just laying there unguarded! And when they grabbed one and took it away, it was perfectly fresh and tasty! So they went back with their mate and raided the whole magical nest before any crows could notice 😂 Happy solstice, ravens!
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