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completely unforgiving.<BR& Hi All, Having re-read what I wrote & how it sounded, it was certainly overly sentimental and guess I might have sounded like one of those wacko Animal Rights activist. YIKES!! Must admit, I too wished someone could have been there to photograph this event too. Anyway, Cheers to all! Gayle MacLean Dartmouth ---- Dave&Jane Schlosberg <dschlosb-g@ns.sympatico.ca> wrote: > What I’m wondering is, do you think the crow and the merlin were in kahoots? Perhaps they shared the plunder, back at the clubhouse.... just like the boys in Oliver Twist. I’m thinking more and more, as I watch the birds at the feeders, that they can do telepathy . > Oh well, a fun thought... > Jane > From: Richard Stern > Sent: Tuesday, December 20, 2011 9:35 PM > To: duartess@ns.sympatico.ca > Cc: naturens@chebucto.ns.ca > Subject: Re: [NatureNS] Fwd: A bird affair... > > Hi, > > Personally I don't think it's shocking or sad, and I would love to have photographed or video-d it. But I agree, nature doesn't follow what people think of as cute or kind. Merlins like to eat woodpeckers, woodpeckers like to eat insect larvae, insect larvae like to eat algae, algae like to eat bacteria, and if you're a bacterium-lover, you'd probably think algae were cruel or shocking. It's all just nature's way of preserving the individual and propagating the species. > > Cheers - Richard > > > On Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 9:08 PM, <duartess@ns.sympatico.ca> wrote: > > Oh, how shocking and very sad for your friend to have witnessed this, but, that's nature, and nature's way. Beautiful, but hard, and completely unforgiving. > > Gayle MacLean > Dartmouth > > > > ---- Richard Stern <sternrichard@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi, > > > > A photographer friend sent me this the other day - thought I'd share it > > with NatureNS. > > > > Richard > > > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > > > > > > Hi Richard: > > > > Just had to share this story with you.... > > > > Last week I was walking our dog past a neighbour's yard and heard a > > commotion. I turned and saw a crow (raven?) attacking a small Woodpecker... > > > > The woodpecker managed to escape and flew directly toward me, a little > > unstable and chirping the whole time. > > > > It then flew right by by me and almost across the road, when a merlin come > > out of nowhere and snatched it up in midair & up out of sight. No more > > chirping from the woodpecker. > > > > The whole event took about 5 seconds: I was dumbfounded, alone, and amazed. > > > > Thought you'd like to know! > > > > Happy Holidays... > > > > Gerry > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > ################# > > Richard Stern, > > Port Williams, NS, Canada > > sternrichard@gmail.com > > ################### > > > > > -- > ################# > Richard Stern, > Port Williams, NS, Canada > sternrichard@gmail.com > ###################
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