Beats a Crow Roast!

On Tue, Oct 27, 2015 at 10:04 PM, Dan Kramer <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> An already impressive congregation of American crows has formed again in
> the
> New Philadelphia area, Tuscarawas County.  I noticed the first group of
> about 200 birds feeding in a corn field along the Tuscarawas River just
> east
> of the New Towne Mall in the first week of October.  The numbers have
> gradually increased daily since then.  Last week there were upwards of 1000
> birds massing in this field as I nightly passed by on US Rt. 250 just
> before
> 6 pm.  These birds were beginning to go to roost in the trees along the
> river as others continued to arrive from the south and west.  Tonight the
> numbers were a conservative 3000 birds and growing as a steady stream of
> crows continued to fly in from the south and west.  Again they were forming
> roosts in the trees along the river west of St. Rt. 416 as well as
> congregating on the ground in the corn field by the mall.
>
> A similar roost formed last winter and may have totaled 8 to 10,000 birds.
> They formed nightly roosts along the river between Dover and New
> Philadelphia as well as along Sugar Creek just west of I77 at Dover.
>
>
>
> Dan Kramer
>
> Bolivar
>
>
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