Elizabeth

I work in the Michigan Audubon office in Okemos, MI. It is on a quiet road with several office buildings, surrounded by residential neighborhoods. The crows in this territory may be living/nesting in the tall conifers that divide the office buildings and the neighborhood. They fly around and feed all around the office buildings. Being a nature-oriented office building, we have planted bird-friendly plants all around us. I don't know what they're eating but something is keeping them around. There are tall locust trees on the road side of the office buildings. They hang out in there a lot, and do a lot of talking. When I walk my dogs out there mid-day and at the end of the day to get in my car, they are chatting up a storm, and I always assume it's about us :)

Wow! Some great (and gross) observations!

Pamela, it very well could have died of West Nile virus if there were no wounds.

To find ours in Lansing, Michigan, I do just that. At the end of the workday, I have followed the flying direction of any crows that I can see. I eventually was able to locate the roost. Same thing in the morning on the way to work, you can see the general direction of where they were roosting because everyone is flying OUT from that direction. No matter where you are in the Greater Lansing area, it never fails that in the morning, crows are flying away from south Lansing. In the evening, crows are flying toward south Lansing!

Good answer! They would probably say, "yes, but I would never eat songbird eggs". It's hard for people to see the hypocrisy because we put so much value on different species.