This morning between 7:30 and 8:00 a loosely constituted stream of crows flew across our hilltop pasture (on the Flint Ridge upland) in Hopewell Township, Muskingum County. A conservative estimate is that 600 crows flew by while I sipped my morning coffee and gazed out the kitchen window, before we went out to feed our sheep and horses, and clean the horse barn, (our daily post-dawn routine.) A group of about eighty of the birds lingered on our land and the field across Flint Ridge Rd. as I worked in and around the barns. The crows seemed agitated, swooping around and calling, but I could not see any deserving focus of their attention (like a hawk or something.) Perhaps it was just their own form of morning exuberance. I mention this abundance of crows because it has not been a daily occurrence. This is the first I have noticed such a flight. Perhaps a winter roost is forming near the west side of Dillon Reservoir, which is a little more than a mile distant from our place, as the crow flies. Bob Evans Geologist, etc. Hopewell Township, Muskingum County ______________________________________________________________________ Ohio-birds mailing list, a service of the Ohio Ornithological Society. Please consider joining our Society, at www.ohiobirds.org/site/membership.php. Our thanks to Miami University for hosting this mailing list. You can join or leave the list, or change your options, at: listserv.miamioh.edu/scripts/wa.exe?LIST=OHIO-BIRDS Send questions or comments about the list to: [log in to unmask]