Date: 1/31/26 8:29 am From: Folsom-O'Keefe, Corrie via CTBirds <ctbirds...> Subject: [CT Birds] Re: 100’s of Crows Waterbury
I went on a crow quest on Tuesday and Friday after work. On Tuesday at about 4:40pm, I found two concentrations of crows. There was >600 along Chase Parkway just west of the Naugatuck Valley Community College. All American Crows (I had my windows rolled down and didn’t hear any Fish Crows). I also found a group of >200 along Park Rd where it is interested on Welton Brook. At about 5:10pm the group along Chase Parkway took off heading Northeast.
On Friday, I went to the spot on Park Rd first. No birds, but I ended up finding a group of >500 American Crow (counted by tens, windows rolled down) in the trees around the intersection of Park Rd and W Main Street. The birds would occasionally take flight and then settle further east. I followed them down Fern Circe and then found a large group congregated in the trees behind the medical complex at the intersection of W Main and Grandview. Likely many of the same birds, I estimated >1000 American Crow. When I left at about 5:15pm, they seemed to be congregating around Waterbird Hospital, which I think someone mentioned as a roosting location in the past.
Cheers,
Corrie Folsom-O’Keefe
Cheshire, CT
From: C. S. Wood <cwood022...>
Sent: Tuesday, January 27, 2026 11:43 AM
To: Paul Fusco <paul.fusco...>
Cc: Folsom-O'Keefe, Corrie <corrie.folsomokeefe...>; Adam Fasciolo <adam_fasciolo...>; Birds CT <ctbirds...>
Subject: Re: [CT Birds] Re: 100’s of Crows Waterbury
Back in the 1980’s i would see a steady stream of crows heading north at the top of Cheshire Hill on I-84 while commuting home in the evening from Hartford. I assumed they were heading to the roost site in north Waterbury and coming from the shore and landfills still open down that way.
On Jan 27, 2026, at 8:42 AM, Paul Fusco <paul.fusco...><mailto:<paul.fusco...>> wrote:
I often see dozens + of crows flying in late afternoon from farm fields in Southbury toward the direction of Waterbury. Don’t know if this observation is related to the Waterbury crow roost. I would think to get that many crows at the roost site they must be flying in from a good distance.
Paul Fusco
Oxford, CT
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On Jan 27, 2026, at 6:33 AM, C. S. Wood via CTBirds <ctbirds...><mailto:<ctbirds...>> wrote:
The latest destination i’ve seen is exactly at the mixmaster
interchange of route 84 and route 8, in trees north and south of 84.
Not far from the Waterbury Hospital site that Bruce recalls.
Chris Wood
Woodbury, CT
203 558-0654
[1]C.S. Wood Photo Sampler
On Jan 26, 2026, at 9:51 AM, Folsom-O'Keefe, Corrie via CTBirds
<ctbirds...><mailto:<ctbirds...>> wrote:
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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Please excuse autocorrects🌿
Are there any photos?
On Jan 25, 2026, at 11:29 AM, Adam Fasciolo via CTBirds
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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...><mailto:<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."
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