** Reply to message from Jim McCoy <jfmccoy at earthlink.net> on Mon, 04 Nov 2002
00:25:03 -0800


> Blake,
>
> Of course I can't be sure that the rule always holds, and you might
> well have seen a goshawk, but for what it's worth:
>
> Several years ago I asked a raptor expert who ran the Derby Hill
> Hawk Watch (near the southeastern "corner" of Lake Ontario) whether
> there were any raptors that crows *wouldn't* harass. His wry reply
> was that crows "assiduously avoid goshawks".
>
> Can anyone out there positively contradict that statement?

Not that it really means much, but Goshawks are seen frequently enough through
the year here in c. BC that I can form an opinion: I have never seen crows
mobbing a flying Gos.

Jack Bowling Prince George, BC mailto: jbinpg at shaw.ca