Date: Wed, 1 Oct 2003 11:41:04 -0400 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: JAMES FELLEY Subject: No crow roost yet Comments: To: janet@TWOCROWS.COM Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Janet, While you can see groups of crows milling about White Flint almost any time, I don't see the roost getting going until November. In the 90's, I easily estimated more than 100,000 crows. On one day when I concentrated at one spot, my estimate was actually 300,000! I hoped the crows weren't flying in circles around me! Last year, the roost seemed to be more dispersed and birds were roosting to the south of White Flint Mall. My rough estimates were never more than 10-20,000 birds. My guess is that WNV hit hard! I always look forward to the roost's formation. Jim Jim Felley Smithsonian Institution felleyj@si.edu ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= =========================================================================