Crows, crows, and more crows

[Doug Ward]

The past few days we have had large numbers (100+) of AMERICAN CROWs in our neighborhood in southwest Denver (Athmar Park neighborhood, Denver Co.).  This ensemble moves around and feeds in smaller tribes (15-20) with occasional diversions to harass the local hawks (RED-TAILED & COOPER’S).  Today there were at least 200 feeding together with geese up at the park (Huston Park) in addition to those scattered around the neighborhood.  As the day closes out, these maraudering tribes raucously congregate in trees and on roofs nearby before picking up and flying northeast towards downtown.  A lot of noisy and entertaining activity all day long, but have a question for the group:

 

Have any of you come across large nighttime roosts in central Denver?  I recall one used to form on the Auraria Campus and weirdly on the USBank building – anything this year?  Interested in your observations.

 

Good Crowing,

Doug

SW Denver

 

[Stacie West]

Yep! For at least a month now they’ve been converging on Civic Center right downtown. Before that, I’d often see them a block or two north or south of Colfax and Sherman or thereabouts. Here they are mid-January in Civic Center Park.

Stacie West

Denver

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[David Suddjian]

One thing I've noticed at other locations is that the places where crows stage before roosting when the day is ending, and even getting toward dark, are not always where they are actually roosting. 

I don't know the situation at Denver, but I have observed final roost entries happen when it is in the gloaming and the birds are moving quietly to sheltered spots, after noisily assembling. Here I refer to specific roost trees being different from the staging trees that may be close by, or even some distance from the actual roost. 

David

On Wed, Feb 14, 2024 at 5:05 PM Doug Ward <doug...@frontier.com> wrote:

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