Posted on 04/21/2021 10:13:41 AM PDT by ancientart
I was recently walking my dog through the Northern State University campus when a hawk flew overhead, landed in branches above me and began persecuting a squirrel.
The hawk chased it from branch to branch in the tree, pecking and fluttering.
This was likely the same hawk, or a close relative, of one I saw a couple weeks ago, feasting on a young mallard duck on the ground near the same tree.
The hawk advanced on the squirrel, and the squirrel dropped to a lower branch. The hawk changed position. The squirrel quivered and froze.
I stared up at the drama, cheering on the squirrel.
“Go, squirrel. Run! Get safe, squirrel. You can do it!”
The hawk snapped at the squirrel, and the squirrel scurried toward the trunk and froze again. Flutter, peck, flutter.
The squirrel looked down, hesitated, froze and quivered.
Why won’t that squirrel climb down to safety?
Oh.
I suddenly realized that the squirrel wasn’t moving because I was standing nearby. I was cheering the squirrel while keeping the squirrel from escaping.
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To the author: Thinking logically does not fit the woke (Leftist cultural Marxism) narrative, agenda, and mandates. You will be silenced, in due time, for the outrage from your truthful logic.
I saw a very large crow trying to pick at an owl on a tree in my yard. I thought it was very strange, surely the owl can tear apart the crow. But the owl did not move or utter any sounds at all. The crow kept squawking at the owl as they both shared a branch. Finally I decided to pick up a rock and throw it at the crow.
The two extremes of bird personalities on that branch.
I have got a squirrel family living on the edge of my back yard and the wooden lot behind it.
A mother and father and 3 children.
I enjoy watching them frolic around and scrounge for food.
i’m moving at the end of the month and gonna miss watching them enjoy life..
Don’t mess with crows. They will remember you and teach other crows about you.
Fascinating creatures.
As annoying as crows can be at 5:30 AM if you have a bunch near your house, it is hard not to admire them. They are very interesting creatures. My favorite story was related by a hunter, I don't recall where I saw it:
Every year when he went deer hunting on his property, the crows would silently follow him around, making no noise, waiting until he bagged a deer and removed the gut-pack, after which they would swoop in for the feast. That part didn’t surprise him, he figured they knew a good thing when they saw it.
What he didn’t understand is how they seemed to know the exact day the hunting season would begin. When he would come out of his back door, ready to go, the crows were ready to go as well, sitting everywhere getting ready to follow him.
What the Hell...could crows read signs or calendars??? Then he realized one year, that they figured it out by watching him through his windows.
As soon as he started pulling out all of his hunting gear, putting it on his dining room table, waterproofing his boots, cleaning his gun and such, the word got out in the crow world:
He’s almost ready to go...be prepared to follow!
There is a Marmorstein in the History Department at Northern State University who must be her husband. I haven’t met him but he seems to be a conservative.
Based on the replies, very few have opened the link and read the story as to why the hawk and squirrel conflict mattered. Good article; thanks.
The age old conundrum of whether you want the predator to eat or the prey to live. I usually cheer for the cheetah over the antelope.
Don’t mess with crows. They will remember you and teach other crows about you.
Quoth the Raven nevermore.
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