{"id":3228,"date":"2019-07-08T14:10:22","date_gmt":"2019-07-08T18:10:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/?p=3228"},"modified":"2019-07-08T14:24:00","modified_gmt":"2019-07-08T18:24:00","slug":"ravens-are-very-smart-then-why-are-they-not-housebroken-july-5-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/?p=3228","title":{"rendered":"RAVENS…ARE VERY SMART THEN WHY ARE THEY NOT HOUSEBROKEN? JULY 5, 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"
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IF  RAVENS  ARE SO SMART\u2026THEN WHY ARE THEY NOT HOUSEBROKEN?<\/div>\n

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alan  skeoch<\/div>\n
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A pair of ravens have assumed they have the right to raise their young in our barn.   This year they chose<\/div>\n
a portion high above our prop storage shed.  The nest is  huge, maybe 3 feet in diameter made of sticks  <\/div>\n
so large it is a wonder the ravens could lift and weave them into a nest.<\/div>\n

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They are smart birds.  They know who we are \u2026 recognize our faces \u2026and make raucous greeting sounds<\/div>\n
when we have the nerve to peek into the drive shed  which they have claimed as theirs.<\/div>\n

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I wish they did not feed their young  baby birds plundered and  murdered from other birds but we, as humans,<\/div>\n
do the same.  Seems that chicken has become a main course for all of us.<\/div>\n

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But the ravens are a problem.   How do I put this delicately?<\/div>\n

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Notice how perfectly they keep their feathered bodies.  Very neat.  Like tuxedo class of humans.  Right<\/div>\n

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But they are not perfect.<\/div>\n

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\u201cListen, bud,\u201d quoth the raven, \u201cMind your own business.  We live here now.\u201d<\/div>\n

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\u201cWell, Mr. and  Mrs. Raven, your chosen home could do  with a toilet.  Instead you have used<\/div>\n
all my prize rental goods as if it was a place to slather with your excrement.\u201d<\/div>\n

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The farm is  quite pretty\u2026complete with a hand made field stone silo dating back to 1870<\/div>\n

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Yet look what the ravens have done\u2026.<\/div>\n

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Could be worse, I guess, as the Ravens could have chosen the farm house for their summer home.<\/div>\n

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This has become their rearing shed\u2026sadly.<\/div>\n

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Seems they also use their own nest as a toilet.<\/div>\n

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Now I must face the clean up\u2026Yuck!<\/div>\n

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IF  RAVENS  ARE SO SMART\u2026THEN WHY ARE THEY NOT HOUSEBROKEN? alan  skeoch July 5, 2019 A pair of ravens have assumed they have the right to raise their young in our barn.   This year they chose a portion high above our prop storage shed.  The nest is  huge, maybe 3 feet in diameter made […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3228","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3228"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3228\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}