tacreload
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Heard a ruckus up back earlier today.That old hawk stood its ground.Must have been 7 or 8 crows.Sorry for the crappy pictures but I'm sure you get the Idea.
Bird Playoffs Hawk vs. Crows
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Heard a ruckus up back earlier today.That old hawk stood its ground.Must have been 7 or 8 crows.Sorry for the crappy pictures but I'm sure you get the Idea.
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I've watched these confrontations a lot....I'm not overly fond of crows, so I've always wished to see the hawk "smack" one of the crows with a clawed foot!! 
Don
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Fairly common to see a hawk pestered by a couple crows, a little more uncommon is the ruckus when a hapless owl is discovered by a bunch of crows. The other day on my walk I had noticed a very large gathering of robins, some have said they never left this year, I have seen them through-out the winter, something I'm not used to. While on that walk I noticed a rather large bird perched upright on the limb of a tree. I got a little closer and looked up to see a bird a bit larger than a crow with a grey outer wing cover, I got around to the front of the bird and noticed a light grey chest and the unmistakable chin strap of a Peregrine falcon, I was excited to see one in town and figured he might be taking advantage of the robins and their numbers.
finesse_r
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Around here it is crows 2099 Hawks zero.
A few years ago I had a couple of Bald Eagles land in a tree in the back yard, along the swamp, the crows went wild with them too. After abput 20 min they took off.
Rigor Mortis
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Ben Franklin said if people were birds few would be smart
enough to be crows.
enough to be crows.
Yes they are smart.Some of the things I've seen them do is amazing.I have suet feeders in my back yard for the wood peckers and have watched the crows pick up and drop the suet cages repeatedly to unhook the chain,drop the cage to the ground and pop the cages open.Pretty much a free for all after that.
For a brief period of time in Canada I declared war on the crows, they woke me with their raucous morning b.s. when I was trying to grab few extra zzz's. My neighbor fed them dogfood, they were her pets...I loved the old girl but something had to be done about the crows, which by the way were the Provincial bird and protected. A buddy of mine told me to kill one and hang it upside down on my property where they like to hang out. I practiced with a wrist rocket and marbles and finally drilled one that got to relaxed and let me get within killing range, I hung it upside down and the rest of the crew did not like that one bit and found another place to hang out. Then I started watching them in their antics and it wasn't too long before I declared a truce and cut the dead bird down. They are amazingly smart birds and actually very intertaining to watch, I liked watching them place "king of the tree top" and found watching them stand in an ant hill placing ants on their bodies very interesting, it seems they use the ants that produce formic acid to rid themselves of fleas, one of very few animals that use a symbiotic relationship with another critter to help themselves out. Of course we had the larger ravens as well but they stay quite solitary in contrast to the crows mobbing tendency, they are acrobatic geniouses besides being smart as a whip. We had one crow that used to perch by the deck overlooking the lake, he would call out "go home", in a murmering tone...we called him go home. I've been told that crows have a working vocabulary of about 25 words and everyone of them has a name. A buddy of mine that used to kill alot of coyotes and bobcats told me that once he mastered the "come and get it" call that is used by crows to announce to others that there is something worth checking out that his kill ratio about doubled as opposed to using the dying rabbit call.
Here's a good write up on an eagle vs crow confrontation: Aerial Combat Tactics
Ohsheepdog
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Around here starlings are truly rats with wings & there are flocks of several hundred each everywhere. The poor crows are far outnumbered & are frequently chased by the starlings...last month I saw & was able to film a flock of at least 100 starlings flying in a large sphere shape with one poor crow caught on the middle! He was trapped no matter where he flew...makes you wonder what he did to deserve it!
