Last night I was working late in downtown White Plains and found acrow roost in a tree'd 'common area' between two large office buildings. it is between main st and hamilton ave, just south of Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd, across from the Galleria Mall. i estimate that there were somewhere in the neighborhood of 300-500 or more (some of my co-workers say there are 'thousands') crows in the roost, many vocalizing, and they all seemed to be fish crows that were calling. i did not hear one single American Crow. in checking the records, this number is not big by a long shot. "Bull's Birds of NYS" has records from Fresh Kills Landfill topping out anywhere from 3500(+) to 8500(+) ! But away from a landfill, it seems like a pretty good number for the state. There is also what seems to be, a very large crow roost-in the many thousands- that assembles at dusk somewhere in the "Battle Hill" (Chatterton Ave) section of White Plains. Every evening, i see and hear, mobs of American Crows streaming in from what seems to be all points of White Plains and nearby Greenburgh.from a distance, the entire top of Battle Hill, is absolutely covered in a solid mass of crows at dusk. This is a residential area and i cannot imagine what it is like to live there during this type of event !
PS-there has also been an adult female Peregrine frequenting the crow roost area by day, hunting pigeons and starlings and alighting on the New York Power Authority building between Main and Hamilton. while walking the area, you can't help but notice the pigeon and starling carcasses that at times, litter the sidewalks. JPA John Askildsen Millbrook, New York -- NYSbirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/NYSBirds-L 3) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/NYSB.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
