Beautiful.

Thanks for posting this magnificent recording of a bird building a nest, laying eggs, breeding, and feeding chicks until they are grown and gone.

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And the same picture I've been taking for the past two weeks. (the same as above, but zoomed)

It's so depressing to see. And that they did it today, right when the nest was completed.
I don't know if you can see on the picture below but Ms Crow is in the nest. I don't know if she's about to lay eggs, if she has done it (I hope she hadn't yet). I'll know more about that later.

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Nest Update. Day 13. Wow, they did a great job today despite some light rain! It could be finished soon.
BTW, yesterday some people commented shocked that the nest incorporated plastic. So, worry not, it is normal, it is safe, and it is a good thing. The crows know what they're doing, it's a common thing in Japan (even a proof of different cultures, carrion crows in Europe don't do it, I think). It makes the nest much sturdier than just wood.

Crows' nest update. Day 12. Someone is busy setting things up. Do you agree that it now looks like an nest? An unfinished one, but it already looks better than a pigeon's nest.

Whoops, I forgot to post the nest picture yesterday. Here it is: Day 11 of nest building.

#Nest, day 10. It's starting to look like a nest. This morning, the #crows were really busy building. I was away part of the afternoon and I didn't really see them when I got home, except at one point, one came to beg for peanuts on the balcony.

On a side note, there was a dead (and partly eaten) pigeon on the sidewalk near my house. Some cars go a bit fast on that road and I don't exclude an accident. However, it's the second time it happens in a few months. Crows? Were you involved somehow?

Today's nest construction picture. Day 9. With some very special guests: Mr & Ms Crow themselves!!!

I almost forgot, today's advancement in the building of the nest. It's Day 8.

There was a branch with lots of twigs and leaves still attached on the ground, right under the nest. I can't imagine the crows carrying it from somewhere (it was too big) but I can't believe it's a coincidence either. Where does it come from? Hmmmm...

Meanwhile back at the #nest today, the best live show ever.

I guess we can call that a slow but steady progress. It rained a bit today (but maybe that's the normal speed for a nest to be built; I don't know)
Oh, I should number the days. This is Day 7.

Not a lot of progress in the nest building today, but to the crows' defense, it rained this morning, and it was much colder than it should for early March.