Subject: Re: crows' roost
Date: Aug 22 09:50:23 1994
From: Michael Smith - whimbrel at u.washington.edu



On a similar note, those of you who live south of the Arboretum in
Seattle may have noticed a curious thing. The crows, who for years have
flown north every night outside of the breeding season to the Arboretum
to roost, are flying SOUTH this year to an area down near Leschi. Has
anyone else witnessed this, and for those of you who have lived here
longer than I (which wouldn't be hard to do), have you witnessed changes
in the Arboretum night roost before? Perhaps this only a small temporal
variation in their roosting site selection, but maybe they've changed
night roosts. The people I live with say the crows have flown north in
the evening every year for the past 25, as long as they've lived there.
I wonder why the sudden (and perhaps temporary) change in their roost?
Any ideas or other observations from the Tweeters?

Mike Smith
University of Washington
whimbrel at u.washington.edu

On Sat, 20 Aug 1994, Jacqueline Gardner wrote:

> i've been meaning to ask if anyone knows where the huge flock of crows
> which flies north out of king county into snohomish county every evening
> roosts. brier? farther north? they stream past our lake forest park
> windows for at least an hour every night. haven't been up to see when
> they all move back in the morning. how/why do they all gather to move
> north at one time?
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