<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Yes regarding the clicking sound and a great variety of other strange noises. I am currently in Green Valley, Arizona, where there are a lot of ravens, and they are regular neigborhood birds, much like how crows now behave in the major Pacific Northwest cities. <div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""> BTW: Crows in urban areas is a relatively recent thing. For much of my birding life crows were wary, and not seen much in residential or urban settings. They learned the advantages of city life rather quickly. Now in Portland (which I recently moved from to coastal Washington and Arizona) crows allow one to walk within feet of them, and their urban numbers have become a problem. This is not only a problem regarding sanitary considerations, but also regarding their predation on other nesting birds, such as robins, which no longer are able to nest in many residential settings.<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Jeff Gilligan</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Mar 5, 2022, at 10:35 PM, Gary Bletsch <<a href="mailto:garybletsch@protonmail.com" class="">garybletsch@protonmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div style="font-family: arial; font-size: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="font-family: arial; font-size: 14px;" class=""><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 13.5pt;" class="">​Dear Tweeters,</span><br class=""></div><div style="font-family: arial; font-size: 14px;" class=""><span style="font-family: "times new roman";" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div style="font-family: arial; font-size: 14px;" class=""><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 13.5pt;" class="">Today, the fifth of March, a Common Raven was flying around the fields by the parking area at the Samish West Ninety. The Raven was making a call that I don't remember ever hearing before. It was a sort of clicking call. At first, I thought I'd found "something good," but was surprised when the Raven flew by me, then circled a few times, making this odd call. I transcribed it as "Chickita-chickita-chickatik." Each utterance lasted about a second and a half. </span></div><div style="font-family: arial; font-size: 14px;" class=""><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 13.5pt;" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div style="font-family: arial; font-size: 14px;" class=""><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 13.5pt;" class="">I took a look at the recordings on Xenocanto, but for some reason, my computer decided that I won't be listening to any recordings, so I decided not to deal with that particular tech nightmare. and left it at that!</span></div><div style="font-family: arial; font-size: 14px;" class=""><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 13.5pt;" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div style="font-family: arial; font-size: 14px;" class=""><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 13.5pt;" class="">Are any Tweeters familiar with such a clicking call of Common Ravens?</span></div><div style="font-family: arial; font-size: 14px;" class=""><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 13.5pt;" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div style="font-family: arial; font-size: 14px;" class=""><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 13.5pt;" class="">Yours truly,</span></div><div style="font-family: arial; font-size: 14px;" class=""><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 13.5pt;" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div style="font-family: arial; font-size: 14px;" class=""><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 13.5pt;" class="">Gary Bletsch</span></div><div style="font-family: arial; font-size: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></div>
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