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 > > > ______________________________________________________________________ > > Ohio-birds mailing list, a service of the Ohio Ornithological Society. > Please consider joining our Society, at > www.ohiobirds.org/site/membership.php. > Our thanks to Miami University for hosting this mailing list. > > > You can join or leave the list, or change your options, at: > listserv.miamioh.edu/scripts/wa.exe?LIST=OHIO-BIRDS > Send questions or comments about the list to: [log in to unmask] > ______________________________________________________________________ Ohio-birds mailing list, a service of the Ohio Ornithological Society. Please consider joining our Society, at www.ohiobirds.org/site/membership.php. Our thanks to Miami University for hosting this mailing list. You can join or leave the list, or change your options, at: listserv.miamioh.edu/scripts/wa.exe?LIST=OHIO-BIRDS Send questions or comments about the list to: [log in to unmask]