Margaret,
I'm not sure what it means but my husband & I noticed many crows while
travelling around Licking County today. Mostly it was groups of 5-10( we saw
at least 10 groups) but on Riley Rd near 661 & 657 we saw a murder of
approx. 40-50. I have a group of 3-5 that visit the feeders every morning.
Manon VanSchoyck
Licking County
www.ohionature.org
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From: "Margaret Bowman" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Sunday, February 14, 2010 7:27 PM
Subject: [Ohio-birds] Unusual crow movement?
While I tend my octogenarian uncle, I often birdwatch out his east-facing
window. This afternoon (Sunday, Feb. 14), I began noticing a constant flow
of American crows, moving north to south, generally following the valley of
the North Fork of the Licking River along State Route 13. I didn't start
counting right away, but after I did, I counted 54 individuals before I was
called away from the window. This was in a time span of maybe five minutes.
There were never more than 7 to 10 in view at a time, and sometimes briefly
none in view, then more would pass, some maybe 20 feet off the ground, and
some quite high. None veered off course, and none were seen moving in any
other direction than due south. I had never seen anything quite like this
in my part of Licking Co.
I have seen the large mass of crows that hang around the truckstop along
I-70 near Cambridge, OH. What I saw today wasn't anything like that. This
was certainly not a "flock" in the sense of blackbirds or starlings. It was
much more spread-out, mostly in twos and threes, but occasionally more.
A few years ago, during the height of the West Nile Virus epidemic, crows
were hard to come by, as were blue jays where I live. Now we seem to have
large numbers of both.
Is this a common occurrence with crows? A weather sign?
Margaret Bowman
Licking Co., OH
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