On Wed, 30 Apr 1997, Dennis Paulson wrote:


[snip..]

> I've watched crows mobbing Sharp-shinned Hawks for years and never saw one
> killed or injured because of it; always thought they could hold their own.
> This puts a very different light on crow mobbing behavior, however, and
> perhaps it has something to do with the fact that it's the season for them
> to start nesting.
>
> > Has anyone else ever heard of or seen such a thing? I'd appreciate a cc to
> me if you post it on tweeters.
>
Dennis--

I posted this story last year some time, but it might apply.

In Bud Anderson's raptor ID class here in OLY a woman told a
story about wlaking on the St. Martin's College campus when she
heard a lot of crow mobbing noise..she walked off the trail
and saw a bunch of them arcing aroundk something on the ground.
as she came up over a slight berm, most of the crows flew off
but there were two or three standing on the ground and one of them
was standing on the chest of what she said was a Cooper's Hawk.
She clapped her hands together and shouted *HEY!* and the crows
flew off..the Coop righted itself and flew away.

This was an ID class so she could have mistaken a Sharpie for
a Coop...and Bud taught that class in the winter so this would
be a late Jan or Feb story..

Tom