Subject: [Tweeters] A crow dispatching a vole
Date: Sep 28 14:18:53 2006
From: Rob Sandelin - floriferous at msn.com


On my walk this afternoon there was a crow in a pasture making broad one
wing flap hops through the grass. It would peck at something each time it
landed. After five or so hops it stayed put, pecking and worrying something
with its bill. A dog ran up towards me barking and the crow took off and
flew overhead with a large dark rodent which I tentatively would ID as a
Townsends Vole. This was the first time I have seen a crow act as a rodent
predator.

Rob Sandelin
Naturalist, Writer
The Environmental Science School
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