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On 5/5/2011 12:13 PM, Lois Codling wrote:
> 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.
* Red Squirrels are important nest predators, so there may be two things
going on here: the Crows may be chasing away potential predators of
their own nests, or they may be protecting the food resource that the
nests of other species of smaller Birds represent to both the Crows and
the Squirrels.
fred.
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> 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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