No rain as yet, this morning - but quite dense fog. And it was still cold, sufficiently so that I was still wearing gloves.
The bird songs early in the morning were much quieter, and there were no raven calls.
I left the house at 7.50 a.m., and as I got to the first field, there were ravens calling from behind my back - from the road. No more raven calls, however, once I got to the top of the big field, and not one raven was to be seen. I did throw some scraps into the enclosure in the big field, but no raven turned up.
Then, into the ravens field, I saw one lone raven poking the ground inside the enclosure there. I walked up, but the raven did not show any interest. I walked round the enclosure, throwing scraps, and the raven - I assume he was one of the young pair - kept his distance from me but did walk to pick up one or two of those scraps.
At the same time, another raven was perched on the top of one of the rugby goal posts. He kept sitting there the whole time I was walking around the enclosure, he did not come down at all.
Back in the big field, again not one raven appeared, in spite of my standing, waiting, throwing scraps. So I walked back, quite puzzled as to this behaviour.
The usual dogs only turned up as I left, so it cannot have been their presence which disturbed the ravens - and they are used to them anyway.
The blackheaded seagulls also have mostly dispersed now - no huge flocks anywhere, just about half a dozen sitting in a small group in the far corner of the ravens field, near the goal post the raven was perched on.
All I can assume is that in some way the dense fog meant the ravens preferred to keep to the trees and other high places such as that goal post.
It was quite odd, though - ravens are always good for a surprise ...
4 comments:
Hi{Yma} this is realwest!
Perhaps the Ravens had already had their breakfast by the time you got out of the house!
After all, you usually get out around 6:50AM or so don't you?!
Well in any event, fear not - I'm sure your Ravens will return!
Good afternoon, Yma. I hope you are doing well and it always makes me smile to see your blog posts. Take care and I'll see you soon.
Hi, realwest -
no breakfast for the ravens, I don't think ... I believe the fog made them feel slightly disgruntled, and they preferred sitting up high where they felt comfortable, rather than traipse around on the ground with a dog suddenly appearing out of the fog.
But who knows - perhaps I should have been more persistent, hung about a bit longer ... only those people were coming to do things in my house, so I had to get back without dawdling.
Hiya, Spenser (with an S) -
thank you for your lovely words!
I'm still sorting out the house, which needs to be done while I am still dog-less, and it is tiring.
But hopefully there will soon be another house wolf living with me - that's why I'm clearing the decks, so to speak ...
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