[Photos] Good morning, brother raven.

[moonvoice]

I had a juvenile Australian raven come visit a roof-top today and then caw its handsome little heart out. I had to switch lenses, and the Australian ravens here know when they're abuot to be photographed and generally wait until I've got the camera lined up before flying away. It makes me laugh.

So I said out loud, 'please wait for me this time, brother raven, please wait,' and I ran and switched lenses and came back outside and got these. :)







With morning light and a storm behind me.





'How much longer do you want me to stay?'



Preparing to let the world know he exists.



A wake up call for the suburbs. Look how impressive those throat hackles are!

Comments

[dragonsrmd.livejournal.com]

He certainly is handsome! Where I work there are quite a few ravens, they fascinate me as they have such incredible presence :)

[moonvoice.livejournal.com]

That is awesome! I love it when you can get exposure to other animals and such at work, even if it's just nearby. We've only just moved house into a brand new suburb, so it's basically a gigantic sandpit edged by bushland; and the ravens love it here. I'd hazard that every new house built has been visited and 'christened' by ravens and feral foxes.

[dragonsrmd.livejournal.com]

Unfortunately developers have been building houses on the land nearby so we've lost some of our woodland, however we still get visited by lots of wildlife including jays, woodpeckers, some spectacular feisty magpies, also deer and their young :D Even some of our most unsettled patients will stop and calm for a while just to watch :D