r/vancouver· drizzlecity@drizzlecity

Nobody warned me about the crow commute

Six years here and somehow I'd never been outside at the right time in the right spot. Walking home through East Van this evening, the sky went dark with crows. Not a few. Thousands. One long ragged river of them, all flying east, all apparently late for something. Back home a crow is a bloke standing on a bin. Here it's a daily migration with a timetable. I stood on the pavement with my mouth open like a tourist, and a crow on a lamppost looked at me like I was the odd one.