10 December 2025
Pittsburgh’s Christmas Bird Count is coming up on Saturday 27 December and I’ve volunteered to count crows. I know from years past that there are 10,000 to 20,000 of them but counting is a challenge.
Yesterday evening Charity Kheshgi and I tried to count crows as they came into the trees near the Frick Fine Arts building in Oakland. We’d tallied 3,000 – 4,000 crows before sunset (4:53pm) but after that huge flocks arrived from all directions. And then they started swirling…