From south-bay-birds-bounces+south-bay-birds-archive=[[email protected]] Sun Sep 12 17:33:37 2004 Received: from www.plaidworks.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by plaidworks.com (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id i8D0W5wT013789 for <[[email protected]]>; Sun, 12 Sep 2004 17:32:06 -0700 (PDT) Received: from xai.com (xai.com [130.94.226.31]) by plaidworks.com (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id i8D0Uv1c013742 for <[[email protected]]>; Sun, 12 Sep 2004 17:30:58 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 22677 invoked by uid 25119); 13 Sep 2004 00:30:57 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO bali) ([24.6.103.198]) (envelope-sender <[[email protected]]>) by 130.94.226.31 (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for <[[email protected]]>; 13 Sep 2004 00:30:57 -0000 From: "James Turley - Sky Image Lab" <[[email protected]]> To: <[[email protected]]> Date: Sun, 12 Sep 2004 17:39:57 -0700 Organization: Sky Image Lab - Digital Astronomy Images Message-ID: <062401c4992a$320ac7e0$0300a8c0@bali> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook, Build 10.0.2616 Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1441 In-Reply-To: <[[email protected]]> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by plaidworks.com id i8D0Uv1c013742 Subject: [SBB] Crow mourning behavior X-BeenThere: [[email protected]] X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5b1 Precedence: list List-Id: South Bay Birding List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: south-bay-birds-bounces+south-bay-birds-archive=[[email protected]] Errors-To: south-bay-birds-bounces+south-bay-birds-archive=[[email protected]] That's "mourning", not morning. On Sept 10 in Saratoga at Sunnyvale-Saratoga and Thelma, I noticed about 30 black crows circling about 100' above the road in perfect silent circular formation. I looked at the road below, and, sadly, there was a very large electrocuted crow under a high tension electrical line. I watched for 30 minutes, and the crows did not break formation, slowly and silently circling above their fallen comrade. Am I attributing human emotions to this crow behavior? Or...do birds mourn? James Turley Saratoga _______________________________________________ Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored. south-bay-birds mailing list ([[email protected]]) Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://www.plaidworks.com/mailman/options/south-bay-birds/south-bay-birds-archive%40plaidworks.com This email sent to [[email protected]]