Wellesley Ravens 2016

Looking more like the parents everyday.Won't be long until they've flown the coop.

The older ones have taken to resting or semi-tucking their heads into/onto their backs when sleeping. Edit to add - I guess the younger ones, too!

A little window into the ravenets' lives this afternoon.

One of them seems to have a nude spot on the left side of the neck - I have noticed it before (foreground chick). These aren't the best shots but all I could get at the moment. - it's actually more noticeable when the neck is stretched out more in preening, for example.

Lovely video CC  they are enormous now, when do you expect them to leave the nest?   I can see the mark on the neck, been pecked maybe.

Hi Gaynorsi, I don't know if it was pecked - maybe. But I have noticed it for some time - almost as if the feathers are just not growing there. I just saw it again and took another snap. I have not figured out if it just one or more...

I don't know when they will fledge, but I'd guess another week or so. They are all walking about the nest, not on their heels, now, and flapping up a storm!

Look! it's on the other side, too! Maybe it's just the development. Hmmmm.....

Actually, they probably will soon venture out of the nest and start walking around on the fire escape. And then after that, the ravenets will "take the plunge." :)