Date: 1/26/26 6:50 am From: Folsom-O'Keefe, Corrie via CTBirds <ctbirds...> Subject: [CT Birds] Re: 100’s of Crows Waterbury
I'm hoping to leave work early one of these days and get to the area ~half hour before sunset. It is tricky to observe while driving on I-84 during rush hour. I'm hoping to get off the highway and follow the crows to their final evening destination.
Cheers,
Corrie Folsom-O'Keefe
Cheshire, CT
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Subject: Re: [CT Birds] Re: 100’s of Crows Waterbury
Sent from Jan's cell phone.
Please excuse autocorrects🌿
Are there any photos?
> On Jan 25, 2026, at 11:29 AM, Adam Fasciolo via CTBirds <ctbirds...> wrote:
>
> Continuing this very interesting topic on Crows in Connecticut.
>
> Yesterday, Saturday January 24th, while driving through Waterbury on Route 8 at approximately 5PM, my wife Jo and I could see hundreds of Crows in the sky. A conservative estimate would be 300. But it could have been upwards of 500.
>
> It would be interesting at some point to set up a viewing with binoculars a/o scopes one day to try and get a better viewing of exactly where they’re coming from and also if the flock is just one (American Crow?) species.
>
> Adam Fasciolo
> Norwalk, CT
>
>
>> On Jan 9, 2026, at 9:59 AM, Tom Baptist via CTBirds <ctbirds...> wrote:
>>
>> The history of winter crow roosts in Connecticut is fascinating.
>> Connecticut Birds (Zeranski & Baptist 1990) cites an article
>> published in Bird-Lore in 1933 that listed winter crow roosts in five
>> Connecticut counties, the largest roost being in Hartford of 50,000
>> birds and indicated that that roost was "known to exist for at least
>> 100 years". Believing that crows were significant predators of eggs
>> and young of waterfowl, song and insectivorous birds, the Connecticut
>> Board of Fisheries and Game embarked on a campaign in the winter of
>> 1932-33 to eradicate crows at their winter roosts and approximately
>> 1,000 birds were shot that winter before the effort was abandoned.
>> The crows simply dispersed to form new roosts, "thus outrunning the men performing the killing."
>>
>>> On Tue, Jan 6, 2026 at 12:58 PM Folsom-O'Keefe, Corrie via CTBirds <
>>> <ctbirds...> wrote:
>>>
>>> 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
>>> Sent from my iPhone
>>>
>>> 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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