I'm getting to know what's going on on the nest by the different call Edgar and Aida make.
The other morning, while Edgar was checking out an egg on the ground, Aida suddenly jumped out of her nest and made short, sharp, high pitched caws I'd never heard before, while she hunched and ruffle-flapped her wings. Edgar froze on the ground. What did this mean?
Suddenly Aida launched off the tree, still letting off caws, clearly agitated about something. Edgar flew to a small tree to monitor the situation.
Aida, still sharp-cawing, headed skyward, where a red-tailed hawk was circling high above. CawCawCawCaw she yelped, flying up toward the hawk. Another Raven (not Edgar... he was staying near the nest) answered her distress call and joined her in the sky, both of them taking turns diving at the hawk, eventually driving it away.
Aida kept up her sky patrol till for sure the hawk had left the territory. The assisting angel Raven flew off.
Danger past, Aida did a Raven tuck and roll as she flew back to her nest, clearly pleased with herself. She settled back down on her eggs.
P.S.:
This happened again this afternoon: CawCawCawCawCaw - I recognized the distress call immediately and looked to see Aida launching off her nest to chase away a hawk circling above.
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