[Tweeters] No crows at the Bothell crow roost tonight

[Vicki King via Tweeters]

We decided to take our out-of-town guests to the Bothell campus this
evening, to show them the spectacle of the thousands of crows that fly in
for the night.  We left the Magnuson Park area around 4 pm.

The traffic was relatively slow until we got to Highway 104 but we were
surprised to see no crows gathering in groups in the tall trees as we drove
north on Sand Point Way and the Bothell Highway.

We were really surprised to arrive at the parking lot on the Bothell Campus
that overlooks the playfields and wetlands where not even one crow was
visible.

When we returned home (5:40 pm), a quick online search turned up an article
in Birds Connect Seattle (November 1, 2024) that mentions a newly restored
wetland at Sixty Acres Park where a subset of the crows went during last
year's Christmas Bird Count.

Does anyone have more recent information about the crows' use of that
site?  If they are not using it, can anyone tell me where the crows in the
north end are now going to roost?

Thanks for any information.

Vicki King
Seattle
v k b i r d e r @ g m a i l. c o m
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