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Index of Subjects ------=_Part_13290_11422946.1181163983715 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Richard, I saw the same sort of thing several months ago from my 2nd storey apartment balcony in Antigonish. Two crows were engaged in an intense struggle, with talons gripping the bodies of each other. There were also a handful of crows on the ground in a ring, perhaps cheering on their favoured combatant. In a few of the taller trees bordering the driveway another 50 or 60 crows perched, noisily watching the affair. After about 5 minutes, the entire company left, including the clearly weaker of the two sparring birds. I tried to get some photos, but most didn't turn out due to the late hour. Bruce On 6/6/07, Richard Stern <sternrichard@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Hi, > > As I left my office in Kentville about an hour ago, there were 4 or 5 > Crows angrily mobbing and diving at another Crow - that was on the ground > and appeared to have a broken wing. I don't know if one of the healthy crows > attacked it and broke the wing as a reaction to something it did, or whether > they object to an injured crow in their midst. This behavior went on for a > good 5 minutes, and was continuing when I left.I woinder what the > explanation is, and whether it occurs in other birds. > > Richard > -- > ################# > Richard Stern, > 317 Middle Dyke Rd. > Port Williams > B0P 1T0 > > rbstern@ns.sympatico.ca > rbstern@xcountry.tv > sternrichard@gmail.com > ################### > -- Bruce Stevens Antigonish ------=_Part_13290_11422946.1181163983715 Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Richard,<br><br>I saw the same sort of thing several months ago from my 2nd storey apartment balcony in Antigonish. Two crows were engaged in an intense struggle, with talons gripping the bodies of each other. There were also a handful of crows on the ground in a ring, perhaps cheering on their favoured combatant. In a few of the taller trees bordering the driveway another 50 or 60 crows perched, noisily watching the affair. After about 5 minutes, the entire company left, including the clearly weaker of the two sparring birds. I tried to get some photos, but most didn't turn out due to the late hour. <br><br>Bruce<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 6/6/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Richard Stern</b> <sternrichard@gmail.com> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> <div><br clear="all">Hi,</div> <div> </div> <div>As I left my office in Kentville about an hour ago, there were 4 or 5 Crows angrily mobbing and diving at another Crow - that was on the ground and appeared to have a broken wing. I don't know if one of the healthy crows attacked it and broke the wing as a reaction to something it did, or whether they object to an injured crow in their midst. This behavior went on for a good 5 minutes, and was continuing when I left.I woinder what the explanation is, and whether it occurs in other birds.</div> <div> </div> <div>Richard<br>-- <br>#################<br>Richard Stern, <br>317 Middle Dyke Rd.<br>Port Williams<br>B0P 1T0<br><br><a href="mailto:rbstern@ns.sympatico.ca" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)"> rbstern@ns.sympatico.ca</a><br><a href="mailto:rbstern@xcountry.tv" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)"> rbstern@xcountry.tv</a><br>sternrichard@gmail.com<br>################### </div> </blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Bruce Stevens<br>Antigonish ------=_Part_13290_11422946.1181163983715--
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