After a long 18 days fighting fires I was lucky to come back to Saskatoon and do a bit of banding. Michelle and I went back to a Raven nest that was used last year. It had 4 extremely large young ready to fledge so we banded four west of the city.
My friend Brent found another nest for us to band which him and I did today. He climbed to the nest which was around 30ft up and found six young staring back at him. I don't think I've ever heard of a nest of six, an average clutch is four young.
I'm amazed at how big these birds are, they weigh as much as a full grown Red-tailed Hawk and they are roughly 4 weeks old.
A big thanks to Michelle and Brent, without their help none of this project would be possible!
