almost a confirmed breeder!!!
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Subject: [cayugabirds-l] crows nesting
Pair of crows building a nest in big silver maple right
Speaking of Crows, I was out in my driveway at 10:30 last night, when a distant
bunch of Crows began doing something that sounded like mobbing. I couldn’t
remember ever hearing them make such a ruckus at night. I thought of Great
Horned Owls, and tree climbers like raccoons or fishers. The
Dozens of crows perched atop sumac branches eating berries near Wal-Mart
yesterday.
Bill E
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We offer food year round to a small group of 3-5 Crows in our yard. We’ve
actually been missing them recently. The lack of snow following hunting season
made for easy access to discarded deer carcasses and parts (common in our
neighborhood), as we several times observed. Even though we have a
We haven't had any so far this year, but some years small flocks -
usually between 3 and 8 - they swoop in and entertain us when the snow
is deep. At least one figured out how to land on edge of our hopper
feeder - s/he had to fly in carefully from the side, ducking under the
overhang, just
And deep snowy. They can deal with cold if they can reach the ground to
forage. Bet the thousands that have been foraging nearer Syracuse and Auburn
are finding it VERY challenging.
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> On Jan 21, 2019, at 9:40 AM, Rachel wrote:
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> Crows (4 to 12 at a time, who knows if
I always have our local crow families at or below my feeders, since I purposely
scatter seeds on ground, too, & especially under sheltering bushes.
A lot of birds prefer feeding on ground or deck floor, probably cause it is
more natural to them.
Of course this means I feed a lot of squirrels
I have been having the same experience...downtown feeders on the street,
usually populated with House Sparrows and not much else the birds are
HUGEBlue Jays, Starlings, a Robin, fighting for seed.
Delightful to watch.
Jae
On Monday, January 21, 2019, 9:40:53 AM
Concerted attacks (vs a couple of young crows harrassing vultures) is unusual!
But we are now very interested in where roosts are actually occuring! Our
studies of roosts and Nitrogen cycling are ongoing.
You are right, the “Migrants” did arrive…about 10 days ago. The roost in
Auburn went
We also have a pond with many (100) breeding American toads, and we've
noticed crows lurking about, though we haven't actually observed predation.
One possible reason for the crows' preference for the liver is that the
parotid glands and skin of the toad produce bufotoxin, which may be
poisonous,
Very interesting. But I'm sad about the toad slaughter. I'm glad I've
never noticed this in person!
I guess the toad populations are able to survive this seasonal
devastation. Great White Sharks take advantage of seal breeding season
in the same way. I think the sharks eat the whole seal
I guess it's an element of local Crow culture, maybe even limited to particular
families who have toad ponds within their territories and pass the trick down
the generations.
-Geo Kloppel
On May 6, 2015, at 1:31 PM, Melanie Uhlir mela...@mwmu.com wrote:
Very interesting. But I'm sad about
Hi Ben,
I just saw the same thing a moment ago, except the Raven was flying _toward_
the L-P preserve (that is, leaving the nest area on a foraging mission), and
very tightly harassed by a Crow, all the way down to the WD Fire Station area.
Might even have been a member of the Crow family
Two times here I have seen what I think are “my” resident Crows flying very
close to and harassing an immature Bald Eagle perched in one of my trees on the
cliff overlooking the lake.
Donna Scott
Lansing,
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Crows will try to catch, kill and eat small vertebrates that they come across.
Yes indeed, they are hunting all the time when they are foraging on the
ground,in the sense that they are searching for live food like beetles, larvae
(beetle or otherwise), earthworms and also, when they encounter
Not too early...Kevin found a crow on Yellow Barn road incubating this past
weekend and there are crows building all over Cayuga Heights. The family at the
end of Sapsucker Woods Rd and Hanshaw is probably nearing completion of their
nest. The peak of many years for starting incubation is
These groups are winter roosts, and they are nothing new in crow life.
Despite what urban residents sometimes think, crows didn't start gathering when
we set out cities for them to use. Roosting in groups at any time of year may
offer safety in numbers from night predators, such as Great
This is very helpful information! Thank you so much for the complete
picture. I am learning so much from being on this list serve. I am very
grateful!
Sue Rakow
On Tue, Mar 4, 2014 at 8:26 AM, Anne Clark anneb.cl...@gmail.com wrote:
These groups are winter roosts, and they are nothing new in
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[mailto:bounce-112890972-3493...@list.cornell.edu] On Behalf Of Sue Rakow
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Sue, thanks for enjoying the list and for being so eager to learn. All of
us who admire, respect and enjoy crows are trying to retire the collective
noun of murder as it can either imply that crows are evil or that they
should be murdered. Another term could be Congress of crows (which in this
MUSTER .
Would that be only used among us locals?
Jae
On Mar 4, 2014, at 11:02 AM, Linda Orkin wingmagi...@gmail.com wrote:
Sue, thanks for enjoying the list and for being so eager to learn. All of us
who admire, respect and enjoy crows are trying to retire the collective noun
of
No according to ask.com it's an actual alternative. Spread it far and wide.
Linda
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MUSTER .
Would that be only used among us locals?
Jae
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Subject: Re: [cayugabirds-l] Crows on South Hill
Sue, thanks for enjoying the list and for being so eager to learn. All of us
who admire, respect and enjoy crows are trying to retire the collective noun of
murder as it can either imply that crows are evil or that they should
Rakow sue.ra...@gmail.com
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Sue, thanks for enjoying the list and for being so eager to learn. All
of us who admire, respect and enjoy
HI All,
A very quick comment, although I do not in fact know of any data on how
effective mobbing of owls is in moving them any substantial distance.
Crows are indeed migratory in parts of their range and they do indeed often
join roosts in winter. If they have migrated, they won't be present
I'm thinking more about crows and owls. It's a substitute for actually knowing, so please chime in, Anne, or anyone else who knows better than I do what really goes on.I've been impressed by how much the Great Horned Owls in Renwick have withstood crows' harassment, and that impression flavored my
Don’t know if owls and crows really think like this, but it would be a shame if
they didn’t!! Dave, you should write a book.
Jody Enck
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Sent: February 16, 2013 12:21 PM
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Subject: Re: [cayugabirds-l] Crows mobbing Great Horned Owl on nest
I
Right--and come mid-April, some person might just pick up a partly eaten,
headless, tagged female crow under her nest and think...it was her first
nest--what a short life, only 5 years, her nestlings gone, too! She could have
had 6 more years at least, or more.
Boredom probably doesn't
Thanks for the information. When we were radio-tracking crows to roost we
found they could spend the night in lots of different places.
Kevin
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Subject: Re: [cayugabirds-l] Crows coming in to roost
I think there are some crows which stick
Larry,
North Campus is hosting many crows, what looks to be 1000+ . Most of
them are in the trees by Robert Purcell Community Center, Appel Commons and the
Observatory. I was surprised by them on the Christmas Bird Count as I hadn't
been up there at dusk.
Gary
On Jan 6, 2013, at
Andrew, Crows are very social animals. They live in family groups during the breeding season, with a multi-year learning period, and young birds raised the previous year often help their parents to raise their younger siblings. In the non-breeding season crows gather into massive roosting
I happened to be driving to Rochester through Geneva a week ago at dusk, and
there was a huge roost (or pre-roost staging area) of crows gathering in the
park at the north end of Seneca Lake too. Thousands of crows silhouetted in the
trees at sunset. Very cool to watch.
Marie
Marie Read
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Subject: Re: [cayugabirds-l] Crows?
Andrew,
Crows are very social animals. They live in family groups during the breeding
season,
with a multi-year learning period, and young birds raised the previous year
often help
their parents to raise their younger siblings
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[mailto:bounce-7531499-3493...@list.cornell.edu] On Behalf Of Kevin J. McGowan
Sent: Thursday, December 16, 2010 9:19 AM
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Subject: RE: [cayugabirds-l] Crows?
I have little to add and nothing to correct in Dave' nice summary. Crows
[mailto:bounce-7530811-3493...@list.cornell.edu] On Behalf Of Asher Hockett
Sent: Wednesday, December 15, 2010 10:36 PM
To: Andrew Roe
Cc: Cayugabirds-L@cornell.edu
Subject: Re: [cayugabirds-l] Crows?
Large roosts of crows are famous. A few years ago, Auburn, NY, near the upper
reaches of Cayuga
Of *Asher
Hockett
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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
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
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