why do little dogs try to fight my big dog?

Vicki Biltz
Bonney Lake Wa.
vickibiltz at msn.com

Dear God, please help me be the kind of person my dog thinks I am!





>From: "Rob Sandelin" <floriferous at msn.com>
>Reply-To: floriferous at msn.com
>To: "Tweeters" <tweeters at u.washington.edu>
>Subject: Great Egret and a couple of hawks go at it at Bob Heirman Park
>Date: Mon, 1 Sep 2003 21:18:16 -0700
>
>Went down to Bob Heirman Park, Snohomish County this morning to do some
>plant inventory work; a gazillion fisherpeople were out and parking was
>full
>and I had to park by the railroad bridge, apparently the Pink Salmon are
>running right now pretty good. There was a great egret in the large pond at
>Heirman.Kind of hard to miss, big white bird. Even some of the fisherman
>noticed. A bittern briefly appeared at the small pond, then melted into
>the
>grass again.
>
>A Redtail sort of lazily soared over the smaller pond and an accipter
>(Probably a coopers but I was never quite sure) came pumping up out of the
>trees on a beeline for the redtail. The redtail just kept soaring and the
>smaller accip flew deadon at it causing the redtail to veer suddenly. The
>redtail yelled, the accip yelled and swerved and dove at it again. This
>time
>the redtail flipped its talons as the accip got close, which made it veer
>off. The accip circled around twice to gain altitude and get above the
>redtail, who made up its mind and started a fast glide towards the river
>and
>away from this annoying little hawk, who followed the redtail and yelled at
>it (calling it bad names I bet) all the way across the grass area. The
>accip
>turned back at the dike and flew straight away back into the trees near the
>small pond whence it came. Why would an accip act so aggressively? I could
>see where the accip perched (not a good look though) and there was no
>obvious nest anywhere nearby, but then again, if there were, it could be
>well hidden.
>
>Rob Sandelin
>South Snohomish County at the headwaters of Ricci Creek
>Sky Valley Environments <http://www.nonprofitpages.com/nica/SVE.htm>
>Field skills training for student naturalists
>Floriferous at msn.com
>
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