[Umpqua Birds] Re: Ravens
- From: Elva Paulson <elvapaulson@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: umpquabirds@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 25 Jul 2013 23:15:27 -0700
Hi Matt,
Meat is put out for the black bears ...I think the brown bears may get their
meat at night (in their bear house) but there is often an assortment of fruit
in their day area. I think all the other carnivors are fed where the ravens
can't access the food. And often the ravens are poking around in the sod most
anywhere .... bugs, grubs, frogs, etc. They don't seem particularily
interested in ungulate food.
Elva Paulson ... Roseburg
On Jul 25, 2013, at 9:45 PM, Matthew G Hunter wrote:
> Elva, I was wondering what "goodies" the ravens take advantage of at Wildlife
> Safari? Is it various carcasses fed to the carnivores? Grains or pellets or
> something fed to ungulates, or something else???
>
> Matt Hunter
> Melrose, OR
>
>
> On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 10:25 PM, Elva Paulson <elvapaulson@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> Yes, we do still volunteer at Wildlife Safari, but it was about 2 1/2 weeks
> ago that we last drove through the park. I didn't notice more ravens than
> usual ... there are always plenty. The ravens know where the goodies are!
> I suspect we often see 30 or 40. I doubt very much we've ever seen over 100
> at Safari. Except for April and May we are generally at Safari at least
> twice a month. I'll pay a little more attention to them for awhile.
>
> We were out at Whistler's Bend recently and saw about 30 ravens in a recently
> cut hayfield on our way in. I've seen pretty good flocks of crows out Glide
> way in the past but never that many ravens.
>
> I remember when we first reported maybe a dozen ravens on the Christmas
> county and had a hard time convincing anyone that there were that many
> ravens in the area. Interesting how their numbers are building.
>
> Elva Paulson .... Roseburg
>
> On Jul 23, 2013, at 9:03 PM, Matthew G Hunter wrote:
>
>> Wow, that is a lot of ravens!
>>
>> Dale and Elva, if you're reading this, ... do you still work/volunteer at
>> the Safari, and what have you seen with regard to ravens, numbers, timing at
>> Wildlife Safari?
>>
>> Matt
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 11:07 AM, Tammy Weir <tamtam_24@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> Hi Matt;
>>
>> I live in Winston,OR and I am seeing similar flight patterns with ravens
>> flying over every evening. Lots and lots of them. I am in the vicinity of
>> old brockway rd and lookingglass. I observed this same pattern of flying
>> last year as well. I noticed as summer progressed into fall the numbers
>> multiplied. One evening we watched over a thousand or more fly over. It
>> was really something to see. I had assumed they were coming from the
>> Wildlife Safari area as they are there all day long in huge numbers. They
>> seem to leave the safari area in the evening. They do make a stop at
>> lookingglass creek and the umpqua river but they do not stay there over
>> nite. Interesting.
>>
>> Tammy Weir
>> Winston,OR
>>
>
>
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