Date: 1/6/26 9:57 am From: Folsom-O'Keefe, Corrie via CTBirds <ctbirds...> Subject: [CT Birds] Re: 100’s of Crows Waterbury
In the winter months, when I'm driving home from the Bent of the River Audubon Center, I see the birds congregating around the Rte 8/84 interchange. Often there is a line of birds coming from Northeast and I'm pretty sure the birds that fly over my house in Cheshire in the morning and early evening are coming and going from this roost. New Year Eve, I was headed home from a gathering north of Waterbury. It was snowing, thundering, and lighting. As we drove through Waterbury, a flash of lighting startled the crows and they took to the air. Snow, orange illuminated skies, and crow everywhere. It was quite the sight.
Cheers,
Corrie Folsom-O'Keefe
Cheshire, CT
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From: C. S. Wood via CTBirds <ctbirds...>
Sent: Tuesday, January 6, 2026 11:48 AM
To: Frank Mantlik <mantlik...>
Cc: Birds CT <ctbirds...>
Subject: [CT Birds] Re: 100’s of Crows Waterbury
There has been a crow roost in Waterbury for at least 40 years. It has
apparently relocated from the northern part of the city to the area
around the Rt 8/Rt 84 interchange. I just noticed it recently, but I do
not travel that way in the evening as often these days so I don’t know
how long it has been there.
Chris Wood
Woodbury, CT
203 558-0654
[1]C.S. Wood Photo Sampler
On Jan 5, 2026, at 11:23 PM, Frank Mantlik via CTBirds
<ctbirds...> wrote:
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:
4:30pm
Waterbury by Route 8
Hundreds of crows flocking to roost for the night in treetops along
RT 8 by Waterbury.
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?
Capt. Ian Devlin
Norwalk, CT.
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