Tweets,
The hawk was lucky to escape. A few years ago, someone brought a bagged-up dead Bald Eagle to the SAS Nature Shop. (I wasn't working that day, but heard the story from someone who was there.) The eagle had a baby crow in each talon. SAS doesn't have a license to accept crows, so the person was sent over to the Burke Museum. They performed a necropsy on the eagle, finding that it was healthy. Well, before taking those baby crows it was healthy...
Penny Koyama, Bothell
plkoyama at verizon.net

----- Original Message -----
From: ma_vern at yahoo.com
To: Tweeters at u.washington.edu
Sent: Tuesday, May 26, 2009 4:15 PM
Subject: [Tweeters] ferocious battle of R. T. Hawk and crows Renton Hill


Yesterday I was returning home from the Folklife Festival, Renton Hill. In a row of large evergreen trees was an angry mob of Crows at least 50. Then I noticed they had something pinned down in a treetop. They were taking turn divebombing what ever it was. I walked over to try and see what it was. At the foot of the tree I saw what the problem was, the bodies of two baby crows that had fallen or were disturbed out of their nest. I couldn't make out what the predator was until I got some distance away, it was a Red-tailed Hawk. The hawk starting crying out. It really looked pinned down.

Neighbors told me that this had been going on for over a half hour and they were roused when hundreds of crows started to fly in. They also said they noticed a third Crow body, I only saw two.

In about another half hour the Hawk had vanished, though the Crows were still up in arms. They were still upset this morning. It was very dramatic.

Mark Vernon
Renton, WA
mailto ma_vern at yahoo.com




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