They may have returned to North Campus to roost at the end. At 430-45 pm, there was a steady stream of crows coming E across the living units on Jessup Road and filling the woods of the Cornell Golf Course between Hasbrouck Community and Mockley House, as well as the trees on the S border of A-Lot. My rough counts of partly seen trees and sky-flow suggested 6-8 thousand. They swirled around for a bit until after 5pm, the dense treetop groups in woods E of Hasbrouck slowly erupting upward again and moving W back across Pleasant Grove Rd into both deciduous and coniferous trees in the campus and residential area bounded by Pleasant Grove, Jessup, Dearborn, Kelvin, Wait and Thurston. Birds were still decorating trees along A-lot, but were NOT going into Jessup Woods proper. In other words, they stayed in somewhat lit areas near buildings.
I left around 520pm and it was pretty dark. No birds were moving very far west or south at that point, only swirling up and turning back into North Campus trees. Two of our 5 radioed crows were among them, based on radio signals, but I never saw a tagged bird---too diluted by untagged birds! So---late counters in Jessup Road area might get the best count. And if people do record large flocks of crows, be sure to record the time and direction of movement...that way we can probably put the observations together for an accurate count. my 2 cents! Anne On Dec 31, 2014, at 4:19 AM, Dave Nutter wrote: > On my bike ride to Stewart Park yesterday about 3pm I noticed about a hundred > high-flying CROWS coming from the North Campus/Cayuga Heights area and headed > WEST over the valley presumably to roost, but I don't know where. It's worth > keeping an eye out for them on the count tomorrow. > --Dave Nutter > -- > Cayugabirds-L List Info: > Welcome and Basics > Rules and Information > Subscribe, Configuration and Leave > Archives: > The Mail Archive > Surfbirds > BirdingOnThe.Net > Please submit your observations to eBird! > -- -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds 3) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
