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From: myers@uwmacc.UUCP (Latitudinarian Lobster)
Newsgroups: net.rec.birds
Subject: Re: The Great Net Cleanup Part IIb
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Date: Tue, 6-Aug-85 16:12:20 EDT
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> 	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!