When I lived near Greenlake, I saw a crow clutching a live starling in its
talons twice. Both time, the crow dropped the starling when it got mobbed by
bazillions of starlings (the noise and what I would describe as the angry or
urgent sound of their vocalizations alerted me that something significant
was going on). When it dropped the first one, it (the starling) ran across
the lawn and jumped into a tree, where a bunch of starlings were perched.
The second observation, a few weeks later, was the same scenario except that
the starling that was dropped just laid there, though it was still alive.
>From looking at its feathers, I wasn't sure that it had even fledged yet. I
put it in a box with air holes for an hour or so, and when I opened the box,
after looking around for crows, it hopped into a bush. I have no idea what
happened to it after that.

Ruth Taylor
Seattle/Ballard
rutht at seanet.com


-----Original Message-----
From: vogelfreund at comcast.net <vogelfreund at comcast.net>
To: Tweeters at u.washington.edu <Tweeters at u.washington.edu>
Date: Thursday, September 28, 2006 6:58 PM
Subject: Re: [Tweeters] A crow dispatching a vole


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>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
> -------------- Original message ----------------------
>From: zingie at aol.com
>> 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.
>>
>> Simone Lupson-Cook
>> Seattle, WA
>> Zingie at aol.com
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>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: floriferous at msn.com
>> To: Tweeters at u.washington.edu
>> Sent: Thu, 28 Sep 2006 2:18 PM
>> Subject: [Tweeters] A crow dispatching a vole
>>
>>
>> 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
>> http://www.nonprofitpages.com/nica/SVE.htm
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