Murders (another term for a flock of crows) are congregating en masse on Milpas Street. Some speculate that the birds were rendered homeless due to the removal of eight huge Indian laurel fig trees along the street in July.
One video captured earlier this month shows a large gathering of crows in the Sprouts parking lot at nighttime, flocking on the asphalt illuminated by overhead lighting. It looks like a scene straight out of Alfred Hitchcock’s The Birds, with at least a hundred of them crowding up the lot.
The tipster who submitted the video viewed it through the lens of their existing concerns “about cutting the trees on Milpas and what would happen to the wildlife, mainly the crows,” since the trees provided both shade and habitat. But bird experts aren’t so sure about the correlation…