The crow landing on the duck was not a mistake. When I was at huntley
meadows this mocking/attaching/etc occured over and over by many different
individual crows. I guess they could have mistakenly landed on the ducks,
however, what I observed was much more aggressive. There was pecking, and
other aggressive gestures.
Brett Scheffers
From: Grace Cangialosi <gracecan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Reply-To: gracecan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
To: 317tcw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx, Virginia Birding <va-bird@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [va-bird] Re: Mayhem at Huntley
Date: Thu, 9 Feb 2006 06:39:13 -0800 (PST)
Amazing pictures, Cliff!
I'm wondering if, when the mallard dove into the
water, the crow thought it was a rock and was
just landing on it--it kind of looks like that in
the photo. In that case, the crow was probably
as surprised as the duck! What kind of camera
were you using?
Grace
--- Cliff Otto <317tcw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I witnessed a strange occurence at Huntley
> Meadows this morning that
> appeared to be a Fish Crow attacking a male
> Mallard. It's possible that
> this was accidental, but I'm don't know.
Grace Cangialosi
Ruckersville, VA
Photo album: http://photos.yahoo.com/gracecan.rm
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