Date: Wed, 4 Sep 2002 13:24:52 -0400 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: "Zucker, Paul A." Subject: FW: Crows in Rock Creek Park? Comments: cc: ACharbo101@aol.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Have others in our area had similar experiences? Has West Nile decimated our Crow population? Paul Zucker President, MOS -----Original Message----- From: ACharbo101@aol.com [mailto:ACharbo101@aol.com] Sent: Wednesday, September 04, 2002 12:52 PM To: president@mdbirds.org Subject: Crows in Rock Creek Park? Good afternoon For the last 3 to four weeks we have not see any crows in Candy Cane City in Rock Creek Park near Meadowbrook stables. We have been feeding them for the last 7 years and suddenly in the middle of August no more of them. Dozens of our regular crows have vanished! I went to see the Audubon Society to report this anomaly and apparently I was the second person in the same day. Yesterday I did travel everywhere in Montgomery County on the Pike in Gaithersburg, etc., did not see any crow. Are you aware of a special program to destroy them, because of the Nile Virus. The sky is empty and no more sounds in the sky...strange feeling. I called the MNPPC Natural Resources to report this situation, but I was the first to notify them. Do you have any information? Thank you. Al Charbonneau ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= =========================================================================