Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84 exptools; site ihlpl.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!whuxlm!whuxl!houxm!ihnp4!ihlpl!res From: res@ihlpl.UUCP (Rich Strebendt @ AT&T Information Systems - Indian Hill West; formerly) Newsgroups: net.rec.birds Subject: Re: Territorial redwinged blackbirds Message-ID: <287@ihlpl.UUCP> Date: Fri, 16-Aug-85 01:15:05 EDT Article-I.D.: ihlpl.287 Posted: Fri Aug 16 01:15:05 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 18-Aug-85 03:29:40 EDT References: <2051CJC@psuvm> Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories Lines: 22 > >> ... Are redwing blackbirds > >> as territorial as mockingbirds? > > > >Hm, don't know about the territoriality aspect, but I once spent ten > >minutes watching a red-winged blackbird chase a crow around and around. > >Maybe they just don't like big birds! > > Years ago when we lived on a farm there was a redwinged blackbird that > dive-attacked ME whenever I walked down the road past HIS swamp. They > may not all be territorial, but that one sure was. The answer marked "> >" is the closest -- big birds eat the eggs from little birds' nests. The blackbirds are not territorial -- they are just trying to drive away anything big enough to be a threat to their nests. This year we had a redwing blackbird nest in a bush on the edge of our property. The male was very active and noisy any time we got within about 20 feet of the nest. Rich Strebendt ...!ihnp4!iwsl6!res