Today I was waiting for my family to join me for lunch, and had a window table at Ivar's at South Lake Union.? As I looked at?the lake?I noticed first one crow, and then quite a few others, behaving?a little like ospreys.? They were individually?circling the water and then dropping down, picking something from the water, and flying off with it.? I had never seen this behavior before - essentially hunting for food from the lake.? This went on for quite a while, and over quite a large section of the lake.? Not that many crows, but enough that you would notice.?

When my family arrived by boat for our lunch, my brother mentioned that as they were boating through the Montlake Cut he had seen a large swath of dead fish on the surface - he described them as small fish, like a goldfish - sort of part silvery and part golden.

So I assume that?some of these small dead fish were also floating on the surface in Lake Union, and that's what the crows were feeding on.

Did anyone else notice this crow behavior?? Or?does anyone know what the small dead fish were, or what might have caused their death?

Didi Anstett
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