[texbirds] Re: Fish Crow west Houston
- From: Winnie <wbburkett@xxxxxxx>
- To: brushfreeman@xxxxxxxxx, segast23@xxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 18 Apr 2013 06:40:36 -0400 (EDT)
We have had both Fish Crows and American Crows at High Island both have nested
there at least once in the last 10 years but none stayed. I have always
wondered why.
Winnie Burkett
Friendswood & the Bolivar Peninsula
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From: Brush Freeman <brushfreeman@xxxxxxxxx>
To: Stephen Gast <segast23@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Fred Collins <fcndc@xxxxxxxx>; texbirds <texbirds@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wed, Apr 17, 2013 10:47 pm
Subject: [texbirds] Re: Fish Crow west Houston
Interesting...I have never seen a crow of any kind within about 8-10 miles
f Port O'Connor, however a good friend has reported them on the barrier
slands on a couple of occasions. I felt they must surely have been Fish
rows, but I did not see/hear them so it remains a mystery to me. It might
e a NCR if one appeared and was documented, I would have to go back and
ook
rush
n Wed, Apr 17, 2013 at 10:37 PM, Steve Gast <segast23@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Maybe this should be opened up for all Texbirders to comment on. I
remember such a conversation several years ago on Texbirds but don't
remember how it turned out.
The bird in question was a single bird, flying quite purposefully in a
straight line at a moderate height above ground level. I heard it
approaching and watched fly directly overhead at a height of maybe 25 feet.
It was flying over Pine Forest Golf Course where I play regularly. It was
cutting a tangent off a bend in Bear Creek and therefore flying over the
course as it flew downstream towards Bear Creek Park. I do not remember
ever seeing any crows there over the last two years. The flight of the bird
seemed lighter with shallower wing beats than the more deeply stroking
flight of American Crow, but this is possibly more a subjective kind of
observation when in isolation from immediate comparison and not a certain
diagnostic trait. I did not have binoculars at the time.
Additionally I have just heard a lot of Fish Crows up at Humble at the
Shell Houston Open where they were also present last year during the open
tournament. I worked there both years for several days and observed they
are resident around Redstone golf course.
Also Fish crows flock In the evenings in large numbers near my in-laws
home in Orlando Florida. When they are going to roost they use this same
single syllable call as a flocking or contact call rather than the double
'note' that you hear them give when they are in family groups or
territorial defense situations.
I used to have a family of crows around me in Kingwood Texas for
10 years with youngsters around but never heard any call so similar to
Fish Crow.
I guess I feel fairly certain. But it has been 10 years since I have been
around juvenile crows.
Steve Gast
Houston TX
On Apr 17, 2013, at 8:49 PM, Fred Collins <fcndc@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Young crows can sound pretty funky and it's about time for them to be
around. Are you sure?
>
> Fred
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> On Apr 16, 2013, at 10:30 AM, Steve Gast <segast23@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> Just had a Fish Crow flying east down Bear Creek towards Bear Creek
Golf Course.
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