Comments | bellatrys: Residential Raven

bellatrys

Residential Raven

Sep 14, 2008 11:25

This morning there was a strange noise outside that sounded more mechanical than organic, a kind of grating/rasping noise like a very loud electric buzzer with its housing off. Given the pouring rain I wondered who was working outside in this and what they were doing, but couldn't see anything out the windows. It also sounded a bit like a barking ( Read more... )

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droolfangrrl September 14 2008, 16:41:44 UTC

"or if it's just passerine through"

OWOWOOWOW

*shakes her fist at you for that!*

Sorry... bellatrys September 15 2008, 21:54:11 UTC

I know that was really low-hanging fruit, but I couldn't let it go! (At least I didn't engineer an entire conversation around to toads so that I could make a "before/bufo" pun, as I once saw on Usenet back in the day...)

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bellatrys September 15 2008, 21:55:09 UTC

Yeah, having a raven on the block kind of helped me, too!

editrx September 15 2008, 00:57:38 UTC

That's exactly a raven sound -- we had one (I wish it would return...) a few years ago in our backyard, and it sounded, in between grawks like one of those African percussion instruments. I knew immediately, having heard them at the White Tower in London, that that was a real, honest-to-god raven.

I'm so glad one of them is in town. They tend to stick within a smallish area (for birds) -- you may have a new neighbor!

it was flying from WNW to SE... bellatrys September 15 2008, 17:00:26 UTC

So it might actually end up on your side of the water, in a day or two, if it is just passing through! 8)