Overcast and snowing in the mtns. 16F at 7am.
After running all of the blood samples from yesterday, I decided to take our raven in town for a little experiment. Jill and I took him to one of the occupied territories to see the reaction of the adults. After only a few minutes, one of the pair came right in to tell this intruder to back off. It was right next to our bird. Then it flew off and got its mate. With the right trap, the pair would have been caught! We'll give it a go tomorrow.
Jill found a new territory by Pearl Street, but it appears as if the birds are just getting ready to start building. We glassed the west side of town all afternoon, and found what appears to be a territory on Rancher St. Jill confirmed last year's Broadway nest when she saw a bird flying into the nest with liner materials.
After dark, I brought some more bait out to McCal and grabbed the flash card out of the camera trap.
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