June 30th

It was overcast when we left the house at 6.45 a.m., and felt a bit muggy.

For the first time in weeks we'd heard raven calls, both in the evening and in the early morning. There were still lots of jackdaws and seagulls in both the big field and the bottom of the ravens field, but as we came to the spinney and the footpath, just before crossing into the ravens field, we heard a croak - and the bold raven came to us, from the spinney.

He got a couple of scraps and flew off while we went to the far end of the ravens field where we did our exercises.

Before Bas and Karen turned up, the bold raven and one of the quarry pair were walking about and poking the ground in a desultory fashion in what used to be the top enclosure. They got some more scraps and then we all walked or flew off.

It seems to me that the rain yesterday somehow must have revived the ravens ...