Self Caging Raven

Into his sixth week Marcel has a new spot where he like to spend his time with each new place slightly higher than than the one it replaces & this roost was no exception seeing as though he had chosen the laundry window sill planter box.Fortunately I was allowed to modify the box,which housed/houses several potted young geranium plants,by placing a flat board across the top of the planter enabling Marcel to sit there all day.Marcel had grown accustomed to spending the night inside an old birdcage which he would enter as soon as the sun went down so I asked the owner if i could mount the cage on the wall next to the planter,as the wall is due to be repaired i was given permission.As the weather was still wet around this time I covered the cage in plastic & placed in such a position that lined the end of the roosting board directly in the entrance of the cage door and after leaving my phone in a position that shows Marcel sitting/standing on the board then slowly working his way towards the cage door where he pauses at the entry and starts pulling at the newspaper strips/shreds that his cage/home was lined with along with stems with the heads of lavender attached and sprigs of rosemary after reading that such material will help keep parasites at bay such as mites however from the amount of scratching he has done it appears that it is a dud remedy.Once close to the doorway Marcel pecks at the plastic around the doorway weather to test if there is some type of trap attached to it or for some other less logical reason and eventually he enters the cage where he spent the night. Marcel was found on the ground in the last week of july after a very stormy night,after ringing a few places i was instructed to take him to specific vet surgery where i was advised that he was a raven,healthy,unlikely to have fallen to ground & he was a fledgling & " should be returned to where he was found his parents will look after him ". unfortunately this was not the case and it was 4/5 days before the parents came near him,he also had a talon missing from a rear toe that became quite swollen & infected in the weeks that followed needing treatment,it was paw paw ointment that cleared it up after having no success with other conventional treatments.Although the only sure fire way to accurately identify the gender of a raven is by blood/dna test Marcel has been declared a male for a number of reasons with the primary one coming from my 15 yr old daughter who has declared that " that bird has to be a male.because its just so annoying " fortunately she avoids Marcel otherwise he might think his name is/was " stupid bird " admittedly the poor kid was swooped by a maggie as a five year old & it appears that it has left her quite scarred. [ PLEASE EXCUSE POOR PRESENTATION HOPELESS @ EDITING ] `