[lit-ideas] Re: Halloween & the crow
- From: "Lawrence Helm" <lawrencehelm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 1 Nov 2011 15:04:01 -0700
If it wasn't a second brood, it could have been guarding something else,
perhaps a half-eaten rabbit, but Sage would have gone after that if it was
on the ground. She is an excellent scavenger.
Someone sent me a video of an owl coming in for the kill:
http://www.dogwork.com/owfo8/ The Crow or Raven darting at Sage didn't look
like it was doing that. It was more of a close pass than a serious coming
in for the kill. I'm sure that whatever the owl was going after weighed
much less than my 90-pound Sage.
Lawrence
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Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: Halloween & the crow
On Oct 31, 2011, at 10:01 PM, Lawrence Helm wrote:
I can't imagine any sort of bird seriously attacking her, and since this is
the behavior of a bird protecting eggs or young, I suspect crow eggs or
young to have been nearby, but unless they were on the ground Sage would
have been no threat to them.
I thought, "surely that's an odd time of year for young." And, "maybe it
was a raven." But some crows have a second brood and there are no ravens
near you:
http://icwdm.org/handbook/birds/AmericanCrows.asp
http://www.birds.cornell.edu/crows/crowfaq.htm
David Ritchie,
not understanding quite how Browns and Colts resulted in Ravens,
Portland, Oregon
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