23 October 2025
Pittsburgh’s winter crow flock is rising day-to-day to succeed in its most measurement in late December / early January. Because the homicide grows they modify their night pathways and foil my try and depend them.
For some time they’ve been staging in mature timber in Shadyside, then flying west after sundown to an unknown location. However they’ve additionally spent a few evenings staging on my constructing’s roof and on Cathedral Mansions.
Yesterday I went to Shadyside at 5:30pm to observe them come into the timber. At first every tree had 15 crows, then 20, then 30, then … Extra crows per tree and extra timber with crows.
They have been loud and so they have been in all probability annoying the neighbors. Happily their go to was momentary. At sundown they departed for factors west.
Seven years in the past Pittsburgh’s rising homicide of crows roosted on Pitt’s campus close to the Cathedral of Studying and naturally they prompted hassle. Crows can’t assist it.
Right here’s extra on crow hassle at residence and overseas in a classic article from 2018.
