Large roosts of crows are famous. A few years ago, Auburn, NY, near the upper reaches of Cayuga Lake, had to resort to drastic (but non-violent) measures to rid the city of tens of thousands of them. Maybe Ithaca has a reputation for being more crow friendly. Here we have our own "reverse pied piper" in crow expert Kevin McGowan, who will likely add his educated perspective to my unscientific babbling.
They are using the slopes of south hill which lead down into 6 Mile Creek and the neighborhoods bordering the creek area for the roost these days (or nights, actually). On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 10:05 PM, Andrew Roe <andrew.walker....@gmail.com>wrote: > This is only my second winter in Ithaca (I'm a grad student, here from the > southeast) so I don't really know how normal this is- but there seem to be > an ENORMOUS number of crows around downtown Ithaca and Cornell- swirling at > dusk, covering roofs, nearly toppling trees, blotting out the sun, etc. > > Can someone in the know let me know what's going on? Are these all > birds passing through, or is there some sort of monumental attack on the Lab > of O in the works? > > Thanks, > > Andrew > -- asher -Never play it the same way once. -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html 3) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
