Hi All,

 

Saturday I was down in Cincinnati doing an afternoon presentation for a
native plant society there.  After my presentation I drove down to Union
Terminal, the home of the Cincinnati Museum Center which includes the
Cincinnati Museum of Natural History.

 

As I was leaving the museum around 6:00 p.m. I had a great opportunity
to witness one of those breath-taking movements of birds that we only
occasionally get to see.

 

Thousands upon thousands of American Crows were streaming southward,
right across the front entrance of the museum center, heading for an
evening roost.  There were so many crows that it looked like a river of
birds in the sky.  Off on the southern horizon, where the birds were
collecting around a power line tower, it looked like smoke swirling
around the tower as birds jockeyed for perch positions.

 

I caught the tail end of the movement, and even that took about 10 or 15
minutes before the last crow in the group passed overhead.

 

I was able to get a few photos of the birds passing overhead, and a
rough digi-scoped photo of the birds swirling around the power line
tower.

 

You can find those photos here:

 

http://photos1.blogger.com/hello/276/4443/1024/IMG_0120.jpg

 

http://photos1.blogger.com/hello/276/4443/1024/IMG_0121.jpg

 

http://photos1.blogger.com/hello/276/4443/1024/IMG_0124.jpg

 

It was definitely something that was exciting to see.  If you can make
it down that way sometime, check it out.

 

Casey

 

Casey Tucker

Education Specialist

Audubon Ohio

692 N. High St., Suite 303

Columbus, OH 43215

614-224-3303 (phone)

614-224-3305 (fax)

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www.audubonohio.org

 


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