Interesting, because the original e-mail that Robin forwarded stated that they were smaller than a crow, but bigger than a wren. Wendy Ealding In a message dated 8/9/2005 3:39:56 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, Eackerma@xxxxxxx writes: The woman called me to describe her sighting and to ask what I thought they were. She was quite sure they were crows. I suggested that they were probably starlings or grackles but she was quite adamant that they were not starlings but were crows. I left it at that and congratulated her on having seen one of nature's phenomenons. Ellen