Date:         Wed, 4 Sep 2002 15:23:52 -0400
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From:         ABTrowbridge <ABTrowbridge@MSN.COM>
Subject:      Re: FW: Crows in Rock Creek Park?
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"Have others in our area had similar experiences?  Has West Nile decimated
our Crow population?"

There used to be a pack hanging around my apartment building (off Rock
Creek, behind the Zoo). They woke me every morning.  I haven't heard them
for some weeks now.

I also am missing Red Wing Blackbirds.  I was up at Pennyfield Lock on
Saturday and Hughes Hollow on Monday and found NONE.  Is that normal?

maryanne dolan
abtrowbridge@msn.com


----- Original Message -----
From: "Zucker, Paul A." <Paul.Zucker@JHUAPL.EDU>
To: <MDOSPREY@HOME.EASE.LSOFT.COM>
Sent: Wednesday, September 04, 2002 1:24 PM
Subject: [MDOSPREY] FW: Crows in Rock Creek Park?


> 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
>
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