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From: CJC@psuvm.BITNET
Newsgroups: net.rec.birds
Subject: Territorial redwinged blackbirds
Message-ID: <2051CJC@psuvm>
Date: Wed, 7-Aug-85 18:18:13 EDT
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Posted: Wed Aug  7 18:18:13 1985
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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!
     
  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.
     
                                         --Carolyn J. Clark
     
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