Date: 1/5/26 8:22 pm From: Frank Mantlik via CTBirds <ctbirds...> Subject: [CT Birds] Re: 100’s of Crows Waterbury
Hello Ian,
I remember the Norwalk crow roost well. I no longer live in Norwalk, so the fact that the evening roost no longer exists is news to me. Perhaps those crows are now flying all the way to Waterbury, or even West Haven.
Frank Mantlik
Stratford
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> On Jan 5, 2026, at 10:32 PM, Ian Devlin via CTBirds <ctbirds...> wrote:
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> 4:30pm
> Waterbury by Route 8
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> Hundreds of crows flocking to roost for the night in treetops along RT 8 by Waterbury.
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> I used to see this reliably and all the time in the evening between Exit 15 I-95/Route 7 Connector to DMV back in the 1980’s into the 1990’s. If not hundreds of crows, then at least thousands of them. No more. Does anyone else remember this phenomenon there and then?
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> Capt. Ian Devlin
> Norwalk, CT.
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