I owe the Ravens a favor!

[H4831]

My hunt was in the Saskatchewan river marshes SW of Cumberland House. Funny thing about the ravens and the "flatlands" around Saskatoon, we have many ravens nesting and living full time in the parkland region for the last 20 years or so, something unknown before then. But, we also now have resident moose, elk, mule deer and geese that didn't exist back then either. It's good to share the land with so many interesting critters.

It's been a loooong time since I was growing up in Saskatchewan, first just north of Smeaton, then thirty miles north east. There were lots of elk and moose and some whitetail deer, called "jumpers," but the deer increased rapidly after the bush got cleared off.
We always had the odd raven, at least in the winter. I was a small boy on a cold January day, when I came running in the house to tell my mother there was a crow around, that made a terrible sounding caw. She explained to me that it was a raven and they stay here in the winter.

 

[Lex]

I once made a bad shot on a WT buck and had a very long arduous tracking job for about 4 hours. For the last 2 hours a raven joined me. Whenever I lost the track, he would circle ahead and would call me to where the deer was.He would fly in a circle and call, diving at the spot, or sit in a tree and call to me, alternately looking at me and then the deer. I jumped the deer four times with the raven's help and was finally able to finish it off with a long running shot. The raven followed me to the deer, waited in a treetop about 20 yards away until I was done gutting, then settled in for his reward before I had drug the carcass 10 yards. Felt good to share with that bird! One of the very best memories I can recall from a great many hunts.

Identical experience years ago only with a cow elk in the Duck Mountains. Just like buzzards.

 

[Demonical]

No pic ?

Pics are not required, I think you can imagine what it looks like. It's a whitetail doe.