New Cameras

Looduskalender

KIK toetab:

Early spring of ravens

23.03.2011 - 22:53 |  Looduskalender
Photo: Arne Ader
 Translation: Liis
Raven nest in pine
 
Raven  Ronk ehk kaaren Corvus corax      
 
Winter continues in full force in the forest. The snowdrifts carry a grown-up man, and roaming around is splendid.
 
Ravens still fly around in pairs but nests should already have been set in order or, where needed, freshly built; the experienced ones manage it quite quickly because the raven pairs keep together the year round, and so all the best and worst and individual quirks are familiar. Finding finer nest lining materials – straws of  hay and moss – is still rather difficult. Use is made of the hairs of perished animals, locations for these the ravens know better than anyone else in the forest. Little that is lying around in nature is allowed to run to waste. 

Of course the date is so far advanced that somewhere some Mother Raven may already have laid her eggs. With two-three eggs in the clutch incubation starts but as many more are laid. Only the male bird keeps busy in the nesting territory: he feeds the female while she lies on the eggs and guards the border. Three early spring weeks, with capricious weather and cold nights, of incubating the eggs, and there will be young in the nest. So all is clear – when ravens are seen flying alone now then the female should be on the nest.


Eesti |  Deutsch |  Tags:

 

EST EN DE ES RU  FORUM

       

My Nature Calendar

Help to do Looduskalender.ee better - send Your observations about nature.

History

© Looduskalender.ee | [mobile] | [e-mail] [Twitter] [Facebook] [Youtube] [Issuu] [RSS] [login]
Väljaandja: MTÜ Fenolo Veeb: Reisijutud.com Pildid, videod ja helid on õigustega kaitstud!
Saidil olevat teavet võib kasutada, kui on viidatud teabe allikale ja autoritele.
  

Powered by Drupal.