Subject: [Tweeters] Crows and redtails today, and a mall robin
Date: May 6 23:15:16 2006
From: Rob Sandelin - floriferous at msn.com


Drove to Stanwood to pick up a daughter at a track meet and saw an even
dozen instances of crows diving at Redtail hawks in various places along the
way . It was like it was opening day of dive on hawks day or something. Or
maybe the crows have finally gotten so organized that they just assign every
hawk a couple of crows. At the track meet there was a poor beseiged Killdeer
that must have been nesting at the edge of the javelin throw area, each time
a javelin came down the killdeer went up crying, then circled and landed
back, only to be flushed again as the javlin was retreived. The final
interesting bird note of the day was at the outlet mall near Marysville. I
was siting waiting next to a tiny, 4X5 garden plot in the middle of the
sidewalk and crowded mall when a Robin landed almost at my feet and
proceeded to nonchalantly bag a worm in the midst of several dozens of
people coming and going. It was kind of a surreal out of nature, nature
experience shared with a three year old who was visually dialed in on the
bird as I was. We were the only two people amoung dozens that noticed this
bit of wildness in the midst of the retail frenzy. To my delight the bird,
with worm in beak, flew up to a covered eave on the side of a building and
sure enough, there was the nest, with 3 hungry babies. I managed to defray
the obvious suspicions of the mother of the three year old enough to be able
to direct them to the nest. We stood there, enthralled with a tiny piece of
nature in this very unnatural place. Score one for the robins.

Rob Sandelin
Naturalist, Writer
The Environmental Science School
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