I was scouting last thursday when I saw a strange sight. About 100 yards from the road I was traveling was a crow and red tail hawk sitting on the ground next to each other. They were only a few feet apart. I would guess they were 6' or closer. The crow seemed interested in the hawk or what he had but the hawk was ignoring the crow. The crow would move very close to it then back away. I knew I could not get a pic with my cell phone but it would have a neat one. The field they were in was several hundred acres with two or three hundred other crows in it. No other crows were giving any attention to them. In the same field there were two other hawks just standing on the ground next to each other.
Saturday morning just after daylight we had a large red tail knock one of our decoys out of the tree over my head. I did see it comming. It scared the fool out of me when it crashed into the plastic decoy. Thought I was the one being attacked. Lol
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"If money can fix it, it ain't broke" The great theologian and my crow hunting partner AW.
Bet the hawk had killed something.. and the crow was trying to grab a bite or rob him of the whole thing! After all, we often call crows black bandits.
Last summer I was raking a 20 acre hay field here in Washington State, the ravens were having a"field day" with the mice & voles that were exposed after I'd make a pass with the double row hay rake. There had to be seventy-five ravens there catching the mice, three bald eagles would wait untill a raven caught a mouse and landed then it would swoop down and rob the mouse from the raven. Not once did a bald eagle catch their own mouse.
When ever we do any field work the red-tails will sit in a tree close to the field and wait until something starts to stir and then swoop down for the kill, They are only about fifty percent successful on catching whatever it is they are tring to catch.
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Walk lightly, Carry a Big Stick & NEVER WALK AWAY!!!