Silhouetted.

A crow is silhouetted against the morning light.

Ah, this was why!

The other day, several crows that hang around my workplace were unusually agitated. Ah, this was why! A hawk saw fit to perch.

Rarely visit.

Although American Crows overwinter in the tens, if not hundreds, of thousands in my area, they rarely visit the backyard. This is the first one I have seen in the backyard in four or five years.

Gather

Crows gather by the tens, perhaps hundreds, of thousands in the largest town in my municipality. Huge gatherings in urban areas seem to be a relatively recent – in the past few decades – phenomenon.

Faye and I observed these crows flying, as well as others perched on the pediments of a strip mall, during a recent late afternoon shopping trip.

We thought it was kind of cool.

Interesting.

Three American Crows visited today.  It was interesting to observe how the light highlighted the feathers on this ones’ back.

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