27 December 2023
This Saturday, 30 December, is Pittsburgh’s annual Christmas Chicken Rely once we ascertain the collection of crows that come to the city for the wintry weather. Generally the depend is 20,000 so once they skunked me 3 years in the past (I counted simplest 220!) it’s been my undertaking to search out the roost and depend all of them.
Final week I used to be assured that, due to you, we had discovered the crows. Carol Steytler noticed them roosting close to Heinz Lofts on 16 December so I went down there at the nineteenth — prior to I left the city for the vacation — and noticed greater than 10,000 streaming in from Troy Hill to Heinz Lofts. I assumed the Crow Rely used to be going to be simple.
Hah! The crows have one thing else in thoughts.
On Sunday 24 December Carol instructed me the crows have been GONE! They weren’t close to Heinz Lofts and when she drove round the previous day from 5-7pm she couldn’t in finding them anyplace!
Are we going to let 20,000 crows steer clear of the Rely? No!
If you happen to see a gentle movement of crows at nightfall please inform me the place you noticed them and the place they have been going.
If you happen to see crows at sundown creating a racket within the bushes, please inform me the place they have been!
There are simplest 3 days left till Pittsburgh’s Christmas Chicken Rely and (yikes!) I’m nonetheless out of the city. Please lend a hand me in finding the crows!