Raised Beach
I was working on Quadra Island in August, including excavations on these remnant terraces that were formed during the early Holocene.
Click on the image for a larger view – you should be able to see someone working the screen near the middle of the shot.
We hope that the archaeological deposits we found will prove as old as these raised beaches are.
One day a raven came and chatted to us for about 20 minutes.
The conversation was captured on video with high quality audio – as it happens we were being filmed at the time.
You can hear a short digest of that conversation at this link.
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Canon 5Dii, EF 16-35/2.8 lens @35mm, ISO 640, f/3.5, 1/40th, 8 images stitched together
burnt embers 
I love the raven recording – I haven’t heard them do all those sounds but I’ve heard crows make very similar sounds. Also, it’s nice to see this shot of the work being done.
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Thanks Lynn, I was going for a shot that showed the landscape – very difficult with all these trees in the way! Ravens are terrific companions in the forest, though they can be a nuisance around food (they are quite adept at undoing zippers on backpacks, for instance).
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I never knew that ravens made such a variety of sounds!
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Hi Yvonne – isn’t it a wonderful vocabulary? There are many more sounds that they can and do make, but I am not sure how large a repertoire any one raven has.
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