“We are absolutely overrun with them over here in the South San Fran Bay area. Fremont and Milpitas is full of them. The Peninsula is full of them. I saw a flock of about 30 at Sunol Wilderness last week.”
I think it’s because of the shortage of Mountain Lions.
Overrun here too.
Though the further you go up in the hills, the more sparse the populations.
I’ve seen a lot of wildlife changes over here. There are something like 100 lions roaming the Santa Cruz mountains. Each requires about 10 square miles of land. I think the lion populations are much higher now since hunting them was banned. Not sure why the turkey and coyote populations have soared and why they have moved into our neighborhoods.
Crows moved in here about 15 years ago. They eat the Mourning Dove eggs, so there are no more Mourning Doves here. What a lousy tradeoff! We get raucous “caw, caw, caw” with the rookeries here and no more gentle “coo, coo.”