Subject: [Tweeters] A crow dispatching a vole
Date: Sep 28 18:56:02 2006
From: vogelfreund at comcast.net - vogelfreund at comcast.net


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9/28/06

Years ago while attending WWU in Bellingham, I saw a crow on campus with a juvenile starling in its claws, as it flew up from the lawn. I didn't know crows had such strong feet.

Phil Hotlen
Bellingham, WA
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> A few years ago I was at a gas station in north Seattle when I noticed a few
> lively crows on a wall near the parking lot. One of them had a large, freshly
> dead rat. I can't say for sure that they caught it but I'm guessing they could
> have. I have seen crows attack and kill an injured robin. Just yesterday I saw a
> crow on a light pole with a small dead rodent.
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> Simone Lupson-Cook
> Seattle, WA
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> 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
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