Manley Olson
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We moved this year to a high rise in downtown Minneapolis and overlook
the roof of the Minneapolis Convention Center. About 9pm on Thursday we
saw at least 200 crows (probably more) on one of the roof domes. The
domes are black but about the lower 8 feet was snow covered and that is
where the birds were most visible. The birds seem to be very agitated,
constantly rising up and then dropping down. I opened a window but there
was very little sound audible. While the lighting on the building was
quite bright it was hard to see the birds that were on the upper
sections that had no snow yet I could see there were birds there as
well. Over the next 2 hours as I watched the crows continued to fly
around but never getting very far above the roof.When I quit watching
about 11:15 they were still active but some of the building lights were
now off and I could no longer see if there were any on the snow free
sections which were now totally dark.The next morning there were a few
crows flying around the building. There is usually a crow flight each
morning and evening in this neighborhood but I had not seen any crows
after dark and had not seen any using the Convention Center roof in any way.
Last night and tonight there were no crows seen in the area after the
usual early evening flight.
