NWS07: Ravens on the Olympic Peninsula

by soundeziner

I spent a day and night near the Dabob Bay Natural Area Preserve on the Olympic Peninsula in Washington. I showed up thinking I might get some interesting early-Vernal songbird migratory song. While it’s true I DID record songbirds, they weren’t migratory. They were, in fact, North America’s largest songbird, the common Raven. This location is, it turns out, the home of a particularly personable resident mob, or so the locals I met while recording told me. They’ve been around for a long time, pre-dating the nearby oyster hatchery. One resident even suggested that the hatchery location was chosen because of the ravens. “They have good taste in oysters,” Marsha said, “So [the hatchery owners] set up shop to serve the ravens.”

Whatever the the real story is, it’s quite the personality-filled crowd. The clips I present here are a mere glimpse into what they have to offer.

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I spent a day and night near the Dabob Bay Natural Area Preserve on the Olympic Peninsula in Washington. I showed up thinking I might get some interesting early-Vernal songbird migratory song. While it’s true I DID record songbirds, they weren’t migratory. They were, in fact, North America’s largest songbird, the common Raven. This location is, it turns out, the home of a particularly personable resident mob, or so the locals I met while recording told me. They’ve been around for a long time, pre-dating the nearby oyster hatchery. One resident even suggested that the hatchery location was chosen because of the ravens. “They have good taste in oysters,” Marsha said, “So [the hatchery owners] set up shop to serve the ravens.”

Whatever the the real story is, it’s quite the personality-filled crowd. The clips I present here are a mere glimpse into what they have to offer.