Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/5/84; site uwmacc.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!uwvax!uwmacc!myers From: myers@uwmacc.UUCP (Latitudinarian Lobster) Newsgroups: net.rec.birds Subject: Re: The Great Net Cleanup Part IIb Message-ID: <1368@uwmacc.UUCP> Date: Tue, 6-Aug-85 16:12:20 EDT Article-I.D.: uwmacc.1368 Posted: Tue Aug 6 16:12:20 1985 Date-Received: Thu, 8-Aug-85 00:59:30 EDT References: <697@gatech.CSNET> <1000@mtgzz.UUCP> <10893@rochester.UUCP> Organization: Ken Kopp's Fresh Seafood Tank Lines: 12 > Pat & I spotted a blue heron flying erratically (ie: not the > usual, gracefull glide) recently. On further inspection, we > noticed that it was being divebombed by a red-winged blackbird! > Previously, I had only seen mockingbirds chasing other, larger > birds around (in my homestate, Florida). Are redwing blackbirds > as territorial as mockingbirds? Why else would it be chasing a > heron? > 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!