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I got to see was a larger hawk (bright heavy yellow legs, heavily brown striped breast and thick horizontal stripes across the tail which is rounded rather than straight across, and a head that grew to three times it size when it was displaying for the crows) take a smaller hawk and then was attacked by at times up to five big crows. The maneuvering (stunning!!!) went on for well over 1/2 hour as the Lucky (unlucky?) hawk tried to get airborne with its prey still struggling and the crows trying to tug it away. ................. Steve said there was only one hawk who caught a Mourning dove that just was too much for it to handle when it struggled. there wasn't a second hawk at all. he saw it close up as he went out the driveway. The prey was rolled in the mud by the time I saw it with binoculars and was why it looked so stripy. I saw the hawk back a couple times and it was continuing to hunt until near dark. The crows spent a good deal of the afternoon playing (how it looked) with a wing out by the ditch. They were tossing it up and dropping it then flying up with it and chasing each other. No further sign of the shrike. Marg http://MargMillard.ca
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