Location:     Centerra/DHMC
Observation date:     1/24/07
Notes:     100s of crows heard in the parking lot near Rte 120, in the dark. 
Impossible to see or count them.  
Number of species:     1

American Crow     200

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Last night, leaving work around 6:00, I heard the roosting crows that David
Merker and Betsy Maislen have reported in the Centerra/DHMC area.  These
sounded like several hundred, but I couldn't actually see them in the dark. 
They were in the line of trees that separates Rte 120 from the Colburn Hill
parking lot.  This would be on the South side of Rte 120, across the street
from Centerra.  I don't know if this is a spillover roost from the one David
reported, or if they just touched down on their way in to the main spot behind
the Novelle/Tally building.

As Betsy pointed out, it's a large, noisy mass of birds, reminiscent of
Hitchcock's "The Birds."

Bill Schults
Norwich, VT

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