[NatureNS] Crows Attacking Squirrel

Date: Thu, 05 May 2011 13:13:53 -0300
From: Lois Codling <loiscodling@hfx.eastlink.ca>
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I saw much the same thing yesterday in our backyard, Gayle.  There was 
only one Crow, and I was out feeding the birds, quite close by, when the 
ruckus started.  Squirrel was running up and down tree trunks, along 
branches, quite desperately trying to escape the Crow, which chased 
after it time and time again.  Squirrel did escape.  I suspect it did 
have to do with food, just because I was out doing my bird-feeding.

Lois Codling
L. Sackville

On 05/05/2011 11:14 AM, duartess@ns.sympatico.ca wrote:
> Saw an interesting happening at Grahams Grove here in Dartmouth a few minutes ago. It was of a pair of crows going after a squirrel within the trees and on the ground. It did not appear to be playing but a serious attempt at capture or killing it.
> I can only assume that the squirrel could have been going after eggs or young within the nest of the crows.
> I recall last year, information shared on this list, about the fact that pregnant squirrels will kill birds and eat their heads (brains) to acquire essential nutrients.
> Perhaps this might have been the situation with this attack by these crows upon this squirrel? The chase went on for several minutes until the desperate squirrel was able to escape into the chain-link enclosure that contains the canoes and kayaks.
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Gayle MacLean
> Dartmouth
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