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.

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.