Jill and I spent the day in town looking for nests and attempting to trap breeders. After two attempts with the whoosh net and the raven, we decided to give the bird a break. The first nest (Green Mtn) had no response from the breeders. Both flew over and didn't even bother calling. They appeared to be carrying sticks to an alternate nest location that has yet to be discovered, Have they moved their nest?
The second attempt at Mad River had a better response from the breeders, but they didn't come down. After about 10 min, they lost interest and resumed their building. However, they too were building alternate nests. The Mad River nest looks all but complete and they had built on each of the 4 corners of the Smith's Condos and in the eve of the new log building next to the condos. Not too sure what's going on there either...
We glassed the pair by the high school for a while, but didn't come up with much. Maybe they recognized my truck.
We found a good viewing point for the east side of town up on the hill next to the refuge. After about an hour up there, we saw the Deloney pair bringing in elk hair from the refuge, the Mead pair bringing in hair from the refuge, the Bickner pair defending their territory, and a bunch of crows on territory and building. No new ravens.
I checked on the McCal bait at about 4pm, and there were about 30 ravens there feeding and one imm. bald eagle was perched above it. One coyote was about 150 yards off to the west.
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