Field observations from 26th March 2022 to 29th March 2022

With March, the slowly warmer weather is influencing the behaviour of corvids. They are able to find more easily their food or, like in this case, their drink.

They become more visible, noisier and bolder as they set up in territories that are going to be their home for the nesting season, and the area they are going to raise their younglings.

In Tartu, C. frugilegus are already starting to build our nests. This precise picture was made by one of our students, as they were on fieldwork training.

As night falls later and later, the light of the evening is changing, and C. cornix can play, better than never, their role of “aesthetic” birds, giving to Tartu its Hitchcock-like atmosphere.