Worked in Paisley today, so kept an ear open for the urban Raven, but no luck. Strikes me that this must be a non-breeding bird as breeders will have fledged young by now. However there were occasional reports over the winter of two together, so I suppose there is a slight possibility that he may be one of a pair with a nest somewhere (although surely someone would have reported stick-carrying etc). Urban breeding wouldn't be that unusual - I remember when pairs started to nest on Chester Cathedral and Cardiff Guild Hall in the 1980s. They were unusual then, but probably not anymore. There is a pair almost certainly breeding in central Edinburgh and a pair nested on the floodlights at Blackburn Rovers in 2009. Other urban sightings have come from Maryhill in Glasgow, the centre of Ayr and the pair I saw over Greenock a few months back.
Wednesday, March 30, 2011
"The grand show is eternal. It is always sunrise somewhere; the dew is never dried all at once; a shower is forever falling; vapor is ever rising. Eternal sunrise, eternal dawn and gloaming, on sea and continents and islands, each in its turn, as the round earth rolls".
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