[BCNnet] Fw: [vsn-stewards] (unknown)

[Mike Rzepka]

Forwarding a message from the vsn-stewards. Sorry to report that I have not
seen many crows in my village, Tinley Park.


----- Original Message ----- 
From: <alrouffa@juno.com>
To: <vsn-stewards@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Monday, September 15, 2003 3:04 PM
Subject: [vsn-stewards] (unknown)


> I live in Downers Grove and I have something to report. The crows are
> back!  They've begun to make their usual raucous presence for the past
> few weeks.
> There have been crows in my backyard since I built my house in 1952 and
> were probably there when the area was still in farmland. The last two
> years they disappeared and the likely culprit was West Nile Virus that
> appears to hit the corvids and especially the crows hard. Obviously there
> were survivors and they reproduced well. As a biologist I wonder whether
> this episode diminished the gene pool in crowdom, but at least the
> survivors carry a better armament against this virus. So it appears that
> next year my birdbath  shall again serve as a food dunking station and
> dead nesling abattoir. And that is something to crow about. Welcome back.
> Al R.      alrouffa@juno.com
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