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The crows are back in town!
Tuesday evening (October 23) Michelle Kienholz sent me the photo below of a huge flock of crows flying over Schenley Park toward CMU at 6pm. See those specks above the horizon? Hundreds of them!
Yes, it’s late October and the crows are back in Pittsburgh for the winter. This is just the beginning of the flock. More will follow.
In the next few weeks the crows will move their roost several times until they settle on a favorite safe place. Meanwhile, you’ll see them at dawn and dusk flying down the Allegheny River valley and through Oakland.
Last year crows made the news by plaguing Pitt’s campus: Annual crow stopover makes work for Facilities.
Will they roost at Pitt this year? Stay tuned.
(photo credits: three crows by CheepShot on Wikimedia Commons; click on the image to see the original. Crows darken the sky near CMU by Michelle Kienholz)
Oh, yeah! They’re really back. Outside my window, overlooking Beeler, I have seen them continuously since about 6 p.m. From my perspective they seem to be heading directly from the east toward Oakland.