Denver is home to some special guests this time of year, and I don’t mean old men dressed in red satin suits. These visitors are not so cheery — they’re even a bit ominous.
Each night, like clockwork, the metro’s skies fill with clouds of black birds. Denverite reader Dianne T. said she’s been watching the nightly ritual, and wrote us to ask about them:
“Toward dusk, hundreds of crows start flying north from south Denver and Englewood. It happens every day. Where are they going to roost?”
Gath Spellman, avian expert with the Denver Museum of Nature and Science, said he gets questions about corvids every year. They’re especially numerous now because cold weather has pushed birds from the mountains and the north. He said the Denver area was probably their winter home long before it was ever developed…