Hmm. If it were later i the day, I'd say probably starlings.
Outside of nesting season, starlings tend to roost in large colonies, and then spread out over the area during the day to feed, returning to the roosting site shortly before sunset. When I was a boy living in a series of apsrtments with views over the Hudson River, there was a huge gas storage tank on Riverside Drive that was the roosting site of every starling in the NYC area (including Westchester and northern NJ); it was estimated that something like 125,000 starlings spent their nights there. Late on winter afternoons we could look out our windows and see huge flocks of them streaming south along the river.
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Date: 2006-11-03 06:12 pm (UTC)Outside of nesting season, starlings tend to roost in large colonies, and then spread out over the area during the day to feed, returning to the roosting site shortly before sunset. When I was a boy living in a series of apsrtments with views over the Hudson River, there was a huge gas storage tank on Riverside Drive that was the roosting site of every starling in the NYC area (including Westchester and northern NJ); it was estimated that something like 125,000 starlings spent their nights there. Late on winter afternoons we could look out our windows and see huge flocks of them streaming south along the river.