Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2000 13:20:01 -0500 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Janet Millenson Subject: Re: fish crow flock MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Howard, Not "sizable flocks," but yes, I've been hearing lots of fish crows in Rockville lately and was puzzled by it. Thanks for providing a likely explanation! As you note, the American Crows are sneaking around very quietly now, and are often seen carrying nest materials. Janet Millenson Potomac, MD janet@twocrows.com --------------------------------------------------- "Look at the birds!" -- Pascal the parrot ----- Original Message ----- From: Howard Youth To: Sent: Friday, March 24, 2000 12:41 PM Subject: [MDOSPREY] fish crow flock > Last night, my daughter and I enjoyed the sight of 70-90 crows flying o= ver > our house at dusk. Many were calling--and all heard were fish crows. We= 're > used to plenty of crows (both species) commuting over our house on thei= r > way to and from the massive Rockville winter roost. But the numbers are now > minimal since it's courting/nestbuilding season. I looked in the MD > breeding bird atlas and confirmed that fish crows tend to nest a bit la= ter > than American crows (nests with eggs found from March 30 to June 8) and > that the birds are generally more social during breeding season than > Americans. Just thought I'd share this sighting. Anyone else seeing sizable > and purely fish crow flocks? > > Howard Youth > hmyouth@erols.com > Rockville, MD > > ========================= ================================================ > To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com > with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey > ========================= ================================================ > ========================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ========================================================================= ===========================================================================