Hi John & Tweets:

I can personally attest that there were crows nesting downtown the spring
before last, because I got smacked in the head by an adult when I was trying
to help keep its prematurely fledged offspring from being run over by cars.
The crow kid apparently had fallen out of one of the small trees near the
intersection of 4th & Spring. It still had blue eyes and could only fly a
few feet. An SUV drove over it when it landed in the street, but the vehicle
had such high clearance that no harm was done. A cabdriver was trying to
rescue it, and I stopped to help. I tried to grab it when it landed on the
hood of a car, which was when the one of the adults hit me.
This is the only time I've noticed a very young crow downtown, but I've
never looked for them. I suspect that there are quite a few nests there -
anywhere where there are trees large enough to conceal the nests.

Ruth Taylor
rutht at seanet.com

-----Original Message-----
From: John C. Withey <jwithey at u.washington.edu>
Date: Tuesday, March 27, 2001 10:25 AM
Subject: Re: Nesting Bushtits, hummers, crows . . .


>Does anyone know of crows nesting downtown? I haven't spent any time
>looking there but will be down this Sunday and am curious about how crows
>do in the "urban core". We were thinking of monitoring nests this year
>downtown.
>