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Completing this 13-week watch series, the five Common Raven fledglings are leaving their nest. Four are seen in this photo and the fifth is safely 70 feet below near the trees. Their mother is not visible, but at an overlook on the top of the cliff.

I've been watching a pair of nesting Ravens for a few weeks and chicks have hatched (visible in the first photo, here, and in the next posted observation). The Ravens chose to nest on a precarious cliff face in territory occupied during the last five years by Bald Eagles, but a pair of Peregrine Falcons have taken up residence here as well and the Eagles seem to have been driven away. The activities of the Ravens in gathering food and feeding chicks attracts the interest of the Peregrines and, yesterday, attracted an American Kestrel.