Subject: Re: Vultures and Ravens, Richmond BC
Date: Sep 30 23:41:04 1998
From: Riesen Reto - riesenr at chem.ubc.ca


Hi,

Wonder whether these 2 Common Raven just had passed the tip of Point
Grey some minutes before? I heard, and saw then 2 Ravens at about 1.20pm
from Cecil Green Park, and they were flying south along the steep
cliffside. Distance 10km?

They made for the 49th species on my September UBC list.

Reto Riesen
Dept. Chem., UBC
Vancouver, B.C.
riesenr at chem.ubc.ca

>
> Belatedly--
>
> Michael Beck and I took our lunches yesterday into the vacant field beside
> the office building in southeast central Richmond BC where we saw two Common
> Ravens Corvus corax, highly unusual for that area, which is mostly flat
> aglands well away from the mountains. While we were headed back to the
> grind, we spotted two southbound Turkey Vultures Cathartes aura high overhead.
>
> I don't think these are coincidental sightings: I think the ravens were just
> as southbound as the vultures, although we don't usually think of them as
> being migratory.
>
> Michael Price A brave world, Sir,
> Vancouver BC Canada full of religion, knavery and change;
> mprice at mindlink.net we shall shortly see better days.
> Aphra Behn (1640-1689)
>
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