Crows staging near Frick Fine Arts, 9 Dec 2025 (photo by Kate St. John)

13 December 2025

Crows: On Tuesday evening I counted more than 4,000 crows in the first 15 minutes of staging at Frick Fine Arts. Thousands more showed up after that but they were too hard to count because they kept swirling. See photos and videos in Wednesday’s article: So Many Crows!

Deer: Yesterday in Schenley Park I saw a herd of seven deer on a wooded hillside near the Westinghouse memorial, a mix of bucks and does but the bucks had already shed their antlers. However their interactions attracted my attention. Two or three deer frequently snorted and chased all the others. I could tell that one chaser’s head used to have antlers. Apparently his hormones were waning but he was still feisty.

This photo from February 2014 will have to substitute for what I saw. Yesterday’s herd was too quick and camouflaged to photograph with my cellphone.

Deer in Schenley Park in winter, 22 Feb 2014 (photo by Kate St. John)

Hole in the Road: Workmen arrived yesterday to fix a water main break near where I live. The small hole on the right is the sinkhole. The enormous hole on the left is what they’re digging to hook up the source. The jackhammer is digging the slab the guys are standing on inorder to join the two holes. Scary thing: The surface concrete is about a foot thick but beneath it is nothing but air for more than 6 feet! Apparently the intersection is a “bridge” over … what?

Hole in the road at N. Craig and Bayard, 12 Dec 2025 (photo by Kate St. John)

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