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Index of Subjects --90e6ba21214125cb9b04a289330e Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 I suspect that interaction was over young or food resources, have seen that go both ways. Helene On 2011-05-05 11:18 AM, <duartess@ns.sympatico.ca> wrote: Saw an interesting happening at Grahams Grove here in Dartmouth a few minutes ago. It was of a pair of crows going after a squirrel within the trees and on the ground. It did not appear to be playing but a serious attempt at capture or killing it. I can only assume that the squirrel could have been going after eggs or young within the nest of the crows. I recall last year, information shared on this list, about the fact that pregnant squirrels will kill birds and eat their heads (brains) to acquire essential nutrients. Perhaps this might have been the situation with this attack by these crows upon this squirrel? The chase went on for several minutes until the desperate squirrel was able to escape into the chain-link enclosure that contains the canoes and kayaks. Sincerely, Gayle MacLean Dartmouth --90e6ba21214125cb9b04a289330e Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable <p>I suspect that interaction was over young or food resources, have seen t= hat go both ways.<br> Helene</p> <p><blockquote type=3D"cite">On 2011-05-05 11:18 AM, <<a href=3D"mailto= :duartess@ns.sympatico.ca">duartess@ns.sympatico.ca</a>> wrote:<br><br>S= aw an interesting happening at Grahams Grove here in Dartmouth a few minute= s ago. It was of a pair of crows going after a squirrel within the trees an= d on the ground. It did not appear to be playing but a serious attempt at c= apture or killing it.<br> I can only assume that the squirrel could have been going after eggs or you= ng within the nest of the crows.<br> I recall last year, information shared on this list, about the fact that pr= egnant squirrels will kill birds and eat their heads (brains) to acquire es= sential nutrients.<br> Perhaps this might have been the situation with this attack by these crows = upon this squirrel? The chase went on for several minutes until the despera= te squirrel was able to escape into the chain-link enclosure that contains = the canoes and kayaks.<br> <br> Sincerely,<br> <br> Gayle MacLean<br> Dartmouth<br> </blockquote></p> --90e6ba21214125cb9b04a289330e--
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