Common Ravens seem to me to be anything but common. Their glossy black feathers make them stand out from the backgrounds in Yellowstone. Their raucous cawing is unmistakable. Their ingenuity at finding their next meal is uncanny. And, they are smart. They’ve been known to break into untended backpacks and snowmobiles to get at sandwiches and chips stashed away. They hang around potential sources of food including game kills, competing with Gray Wolves and Coyotes for bits of sinew and muscle. The other day in Yellowstone, at a couple of different locations, we had a Common Raven or two watching our every move. I was photographing Bison and Bighorn Sheep but I couldn’t resist grabbing some closeups since I already had the long lens at the ready. The three images are essentially views of the bird’s eye. The image in the Raven’s eyeball in the third image prompted my name for this post, however. The image in the bird’s eyeball is a sort of “fish-eye view” (bird’s eye view!) of our van parked at a pullout alongside Yellowstone Lake.