Ravens start to become more common than crows north of North Bay. Here is a photo from a park in Nipigon, just east of Thunder Bay:
Here in the Toronto area they are still rare.
I had my camera in the wrong settings for flying birds when this Raven quickly flew overhead but was able to get this image:
Species list: trumpeter swan, Canada goose, mallard, American black duck, red-tailed hawk, herring gull, ring-billed gull, mourning dove, rock pigeon, downy woodpecker, hairy woodpecker, white-breasted nuthatch, Blue jay, American crow, common raven, black-capped chickadee, American robin, European starling, house sparrow, red-winged blackbird, common grackle, northern cardinal, song sparrow. (23 species)
Other nature:
Park Scenes:
This morning’s group on this 2 degree cloudy morning:
NATURE POETRY
The stormy March is come at last,
With wind, and cloud, and changing skies;
I hear the rushing of the blast
That through the snowy valley flies. – William Cullen Bryant (1794–1878)
Miles Hearn