Crow Patrol – April 14th
While on crow patrol last night (April 14) at 7 PM we were sitting on the south side of the [...]
Crow Patrol – April 10th
For those of you that have been tracking the Greater Lawrence Winter Crow Roost, there are still crows staging and [...]
Crow Patrol – March 28th
Bob and I arrived home from a meeting in Wolfeboro, NH in time for crow patrol. What will they do [...]
Crow Patrol – March 27th
It was much cooler and cloudy. The crows roosted to the east of Industrial Way and took off at 7:07 [...]
Crow Patrol – March 26th
Last night they staged in Lawrence on the SOUTH side of the Merrimack River off of Fallon St. to the [...]
Crow Patrol – March 23rd
That old adage “You should have seen it last night” rang out clear last night. Bob and I went out [...]
Counting crows in Lawrence: Would you believe 15,000?
LAWRENCE — Sitting in their station wagon atop a hill in the Immaculate Conception Cemetery on a cold, windy afternoon, Dana Duxbury-Fox and her husband, Bob Fox, scan the sky with binoculars.
Crows are one Pennsylvania’s most intelligent birds
They were black silhouettes scattered among a maze of tree limbs set on a backdrop of blue sky. What were they? Crows, and lots of them, and with more to come.
In Lawrence, a massive and wily flock of crows delivers a winter mix of urban and wild
It's an hour before sunset on a January afternoon as Bob and Dana Fox step into their Subaru carrying binoculars and notepads to pursue the massive flock of crows about to descend after a day foraging as far away as Plum Island and beyond.
Ornithologists say the region’s few crow roosts should be embraced; others not so sure
On most winter nights, 30,000 to 40,000 crows fill Hill District trees overlooking Bigelow Boulevard. It's a loud, dramatic spectacle that obviously brings to mind Alfred Hitchcock's 1963 movie, "The Birds."