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<\/a><\/p>\nSo here is the hawk sitting, looking rather dangerous and brooding, in a tree.<\/p>\n
But wait, above it is a very small bird.<\/p>\n And bam, the small bird is dive-bombing the hawk.<\/p>\n Can you see the blurred warrior just inches away from that predatory beak?<\/p>\n Eventually after a few passes, the hawk gives up and wings away.<\/p>\n A close up look at the dive bomber revealed it is a Blue-gray Gnatcatcher. According to the AllAboutBirds website, it weighs about 6 g.(0.2 oz.)<\/p>\n The average Red-tailed hawk weighs 690-1456 g. (24 \u2013 51 oz.)<\/p>\n So if that was the smallest Red-tailed Hawk out there, it would take 115 Gnatcatchers to equal it in weight. That is one brave little bird! But given how easily one measly Blackfly can drive me away, I\u2019m not surprised the Gnatcatcher was successful. The Hawk and I just don\u2019t like to be bugged.<\/p>\n Related Reading<\/strong><\/p>\n Join In<\/strong> Would you take on a predator 115 times your weight? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[150,152,383,218],"class_list":["post-3663","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-focus","tag-blue-grey-gnatcatchers","tag-blue-gray-gnatcatchers","tag-blue-gray-gnatcatcher","tag-red-tailed-hawk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/naturalcrooks.com\/rambles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3663","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/naturalcrooks.com\/rambles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/naturalcrooks.com\/rambles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naturalcrooks.com\/rambles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naturalcrooks.com\/rambles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3663"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/naturalcrooks.com\/rambles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3663\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8394,"href":"https:\/\/naturalcrooks.com\/rambles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3663\/revisions\/8394"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/naturalcrooks.com\/rambles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naturalcrooks.com\/rambles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naturalcrooks.com\/rambles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\nWhat Is that Small Warrior Bird?<\/h2>\n
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\nThis Blue-gray gnatcatcher is a relative of the Victor, taken a year previously in another park.<\/em><\/p>\n\n
\nHave you watched a hawk, crow or cowbird being driven away by a much smaller bird or birds? Please share your sighting with a comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"