Hi Tweets,

Tonight, Mary Peete-Leslie and her sister observed a male American Robin
beating an adult shrew to death in Campbell Valley Park in Langley, to the
SE of Vancouver BC. The bird was dashing the head of the shrew against the
packed earth of a pathway, then shaking the shrew, "Like a hawk killing a
snake." according to Mary. A young half-grown shrew was immediately nearby;
maybe the adult shrew was a female, perhaps suckling the young when it was
struck by the robin. The robin took off with the shrew in its bill.

Carnivory in *robins*? Isn't that a sign of the coming of the Anti-Christ? ;-)

Michael Price
Vancouver BC Canada
michael_price at mindlink.bc.ca