Subject: Re: Blue Jay report & weird flicker attack
Date: Oct 04 10:05:21 1996
From: Peggi Rodgers - peggir at aragorn.ori.org


At 03:44 PM 10/3/96 -0700, you wrote:
>
>
>DATELINE USK: A friend who is hibernating from urban life along the Pend
>Oreille River, about 10 miles upstream from Usk, submitted two interesting
>reports:.........
>
Today (10/3), she watched from 60-70 feet away as a flicker attacked a
>robin (one of several robins in a berry bush), knocking it from a bush to the
>ground.

This doesn't sound like flicker-type behavior to me. Additionally, due to
the construction of the foot, it would be difficult for the woodpecker to
grab and hold anything, especially something nearly it's own body weight.

Peggi



Peggi Rodgers
Oregon Research Institute
Eugene, OR
peggir at ori.org
prodgers at efn.org
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