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Index of Subjects --Apple-Mail-1--595456338 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Thanks Lance and Nick. I feel pretty sure they are all roosting at the = Mount. Paul. On 2017-02-08, at 7:42 PM, Nick Hill wrote: > Paul > I taught w Fred Harrington at the Mount and Fred, a behavioural = ecologist, taught Ethology and one of the student projects was to look = at where the crows went.=20 > Fred is retired but still around. > Nick >=20 > On Feb 8, 2017 17:55, "Laviolette, Lance" <lance.laviolette@lmco.com> = wrote: > Hi Paul, >=20 > I can't speak specifically about the 'Mount' roost but all the crow = roosts I'm familiar with involve extensive pre-roosting movement and = temporary gathering points. Sometimes these pre-roosting movements go = off in many directions so it is possible that this is what happened in = this case. If so, the crows would indeed double back. >=20 > Having said this, there are a number of reasons the main roost might = fragment. Predation, disturbance, weather and the advance towards spring = are all reasons that come to mind. >=20 > All the best, >=20 > Lance >=20 > Lance Laviolette > Glen Robertson, Ontario >=20 >=20 >=20 >=20 > -----Original Message----- > From: naturens-owner@chebucto.ns.ca = [mailto:naturens-owner@chebucto.ns.ca] On Behalf Of Paul Ruggles > Sent: Wednesday, February 08, 2017 2:59 PM > To: naturens@chebucto.ns.ca > Subject: EXTERNAL: [NatureNS] murder of crows >=20 > Does any one know if there is another "murder of crows" close to the = Mount - perhaps around the Kearny Lake area? We see them fly by our = condo each evening along the Bedford Hwy, but some of them appear to = head off towards Kearny Lake. > - Perhaps to circle back and approach the Mount from the west? > Thanks. > Paul. >=20 --Apple-Mail-1--595456338 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/html; charset=us-ascii <html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Thanks Lance and Nick. I feel pretty sure they are all roosting at the Mount.<div>Paul.</div><div><br><div><div>On 2017-02-08, at 7:42 PM, Nick Hill wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="auto">Paul<div dir="auto">I taught w Fred Harrington at the Mount and Fred, a behavioural ecologist, taught Ethology and one of the student projects was to look at where the crows went. </div><div dir="auto">Fred is retired but still around.</div><div dir="auto">Nick</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Feb 8, 2017 17:55, "Laviolette, Lance" <lance.laviolette@lmco.com> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Hi Paul,<br> <br> I can't speak specifically about the 'Mount' roost but all the crow roosts I'm familiar with involve extensive pre-roosting movement and temporary gathering points. Sometimes these pre-roosting movements go off in many directions so it is possible that this is what happened in this case. If so, the crows would indeed double back.<br> <br> Having said this, there are a number of reasons the main roost might fragment. Predation, disturbance, weather and the advance towards spring are all reasons that come to mind.<br> <br> All the best,<br> <br> Lance<br> <br> Lance Laviolette<br> Glen Robertson, Ontario<br> <br> <br> <br> <br> -----Original Message-----<br> From: naturens-owner@chebucto.ns.ca [mailto:naturens-owner@chebucto.ns.ca ] On Behalf Of Paul Ruggles<br> Sent: Wednesday, February 08, 2017 2:59 PM<br> To: naturens@chebucto.ns.ca<br> Subject: EXTERNAL: [NatureNS] murder of crows<br> <br> Does any one know if there is another "murder of crows" close to the Mount - perhaps around the Kearny Lake area? We see them fly by our condo each evening along the Bedford Hwy, but some of them appear to head off towards Kearny Lake.<br> - Perhaps to circle back and approach the Mount from the west?<br> Thanks.<br> Paul.<br> </blockquote></div><br></div> </blockquote></div><br></div></body></html> --Apple-Mail-1--595456338--
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