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["Spears, David" <dspears@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Ravens have become fairly common in recent years along VA Rt. 20 both north
and south of Scottsville, generally within a few miles of the James River,
in northern Buckingham and southern Albemarle counties. I see them mostly in
the morning following the highway, scouting for roadkill.  The most I have
ever seen together was four.

During 1999 and 2000, I was working in northern Cumberland County between
Columbia and Cartersville, and found ravens to be occasionally present along
the James even that far east.  Some of those occasions were in the spring,
but I saw no evidence for breeding.  This is the farthest east I have ever
seen them in Virginia.

The Margaret Watson and Lynchburg bird clubs have observed ravens at Red
Hill, on the Campbell/Charlotte county line, at least twice in the last five
years.  This location is thirty miles southeast of Lynchburg.

David B. Spears

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