Victoria's "Downtown" Common Raven pair has given up on the banking business
and has gone to church. After attempting to fashion two rudimentary nests
over the entrance to a heritage bank building, the pair voluntarilly
abandoned those precarious structures and migrated one block south to a tall
cypress tree growing on the lawn of St Andrews Cathedral (RC), Blanshard at
View. A hulk of a nest now sits half way up the tree and, conveniently, is
in excellent scope view from the local naturalist history/birding shop across
the street.

We're in for a summer of skirmishes between these impressive corvids and
their diminutive Northwestern Crow cousins...and the roof-nesting GW
Gulls...and the retreating Rock Doves.

All could end early, though --it's not unusual to find a racoon or two
sleeping by day in those churchyard trees.

Bryan Gates, Victoria - the Biodiver-city

bgates at assessment.env.gov.bc.ca