BONGO AND BELLA’S EARLY START

Bongo and Bella seem to be on their own now as Brunhilde, their fledling from 2023, hasn’t been seen for a few weeks now. I think she may have been trying to get Bongo to mate with her, at which point Bella put her clawed foot down and insisted it was time for her to go hang out with crows her own age.

All is proceeding according to plan now, and Bella has been sitting on the nest for about ten days now, making her and Bongo first among this spring’s local crow nesters.

The red-leaved plum trees make good camouflage for early nests. Unfortunately these trees are getting to be rare real estate as, all planted at the same time, most are reaching the end-of-life stage at once and are either falling over or being pre-emptively removed by City crews.

Bongo is on constant guard close to the nest.

He guards in all weather …

He’s started his mating season “boing” calls too.

I tried to get a video of him doing it but, as always, it’s noisy! In this case he’s competing with Geordie’s excitable dog friend, Sally …

 

Tomorrow: Norman and Nancy’s Nesting Trials

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