The Raven is back in London (1 Viewer)

[Deepgreen]

Hey, just looking back at my original message it was a tad confusing to understand. I was talking about the Raven breeding in Stanmore and Enfield.

Thanks for your reply regarding the Hobby, interesting that they take swifts, they must be quite nimble in the air.

Hobbies are extremely agile - they also take dragonflies, which are exceedingly hard to catch owing to their amazing flight abilities.

 

[ieuancilgwri]

When I was in London about a month ago, I was just off the Mall and I swear my friends and I saw a solitary raven hopping about the bins in a restaurant cellar, it was very unconcerned by us. I spend a lot of time in the Mountains of North Wales so am very familiar with them and their size / characteristics. Would be interested in people’s thoughts.

 

[THE_FERN]

When I was in London about a month ago, I was just off the Mall and I swear my friends and I saw a solitary raven hopping about the bins in a restaurant cellar, it was very unconcerned by us. I spend a lot of time in the Mountains of North Wales so am very familiar with them and their size / characteristics. Would be interested in people’s thoughts.

I think you're right. I saw one in central London on roof tops recently.

 

[WalterRayle]

A friend of mine was dissed on line for mentioning on a local bird news service that he'd had a Raven in the New Forest, where they are seen and heard patrolling every day (record removed). No no, rare breeding bird, keep stumm! was the cry. The following weekend we had 150 in a single pig field in NW Hampshire. I don't know if the service in question has changed its policy yet.... Ravens are doing well.

Raven is also on my Farnborough house list (flyover only).

John

If that's 'goingbirding' you're referring to it is fairly useless when trying to submit certain records.. a friend saw a ringtail Hen Harrier Keyhaven back in March and tried to submit the record only to have it refused for public view on the grounds it's a rare breeding bird and could be vulnerable to disturbance which of course is rubbish because it was clearly a passage bird especially given how scarce they've come in the county during winter, similarly I've tried to upload records of Peregrine flying over the garden for the record and been met with the same response and yet on Hos list the county recorder tells us every year where nesting Peregrines with webcams are in the county. Alternatively you could look at the 'wild new forest' website to find out all about their Raven survey which included territory locations!

Anyway, back on topic, Ravens are awesome to see and it usually makes my day when I do it's so good to see how they've spread across southern England unaided by releases in the past thirty years.