[mou] More "Murders" of Crows
Diana Doyle
diana@managingthewaterway.com
Tue, 20 Mar 2007 20:33:06 -0500
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I've also been seeing large numbers of crows. On March 16th in the
evening, I counted over 200 Am. crows at L. Hiawatha, Mpls, on the
ice near a spot of open water and in the surrounding trees.
Diana Doyle
Hennepin County
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Message: 4
Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2007 19:29:43 -0700 (PDT)
From: Shelley Steva <crossbill7200@yahoo.com>
To: MOU <mou-net@cbs.umn.edu>, Jeanie Joppru <ajjoppru@wiktel.com>
Subject: [mou] Large Numbers of Common Crows
I saw a "murder" of over 100 common crows today in
Pennington County. So what you say? Well-- that is
the largest number of crows I have seen at one time
since West Nile started to decimate the numbers of
crows in this area.
Before West Nile appeared around here I used to see
50 or more crows at a time. NOW- I see two or three at
a time- never 100 or more. So- it was a welcome sight
today. There were crows in MANY places all along my
route to work. I would say that I saw another 30
crows- half in Pennington and half in Red Lake Co. I
presume that they were migrants arriving into this
area over this weekend.
Good Birding
Shelley Steva
Pennington Co.
Diana Doyle
Hennepin County
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