The Hitchcockian Crows of Vancouver
Posted: September 17, 2013 Filed under: Mediasphere | Tags: British Columbia, Burnaby, Canada, Crow, Hitchcockian, Regional Districts, SkyTrain, Vancouver 1 Comment
(BEN NELMS for National Post)
VANCOUVER — Every day at dusk, thousands of crows across Vancouver drop what they are doing, take to the air and head east.
The effect is a blackening of the skies over east Vancouver as the crows loosely follow the SkyTrain to a nightly meeting point in central Burnaby where they crowd wing-to-wing for warmth and protection and intricately plot out the parks, beaches and alleys they will scour for food come morning. Read the rest of this entry »