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<\/a>\nThis Red-tailed Hawk may look nervous to you. It is. It deliberately picked a perch with lots of branches around and above it. And it kept turning to look around. It could hear the Cawing of outrage from a nearby street light.<\/p>\n
Thjs American Crow was not<\/strong> happy to have a hawk near its nesting site.<\/p>\n No matter where this young Red-tailed Hawk tried to perch, within a few minutes an American Crow would start hounding it to move. The Crow would caw out threats then start swooping towards the head and eyes of the hawk.<\/p>\n Whether the hawk felt threatened or not, it would eventually give up and start flying. The Crow followed in hot pursuit its caws sounding like jeers to a human.<\/p>\n After the third rout, I turned my back to the wood lot to take photos of a Blue-headed Vireo hunting basking bees in the branches of a budding tree. Minutes later, when I turned, I saw the Hawk had landed on the grass not far from me.<\/p>\n Curious, I started taking photos. I figured it had caught a mouse or something similar. Nope!<\/p>\n And so it did. And yes, it was a long, slim, slimey one! The Red-tailed Hawk was eating an earthworm!<\/p>\n Fortified by its snack, it called quietly then flew to another, hopefully hidden, perch.<\/p>\n I’m not sue this was its proudest moment and perhaps not its finest hour. I gave it privacy and continued on my ramble only to discover another wonderful migrant a few yards further away.<\/p>\n Related Reading<\/strong><\/p>\n Join In<\/strong> Red-tailed Hawks eat almost as many things as the animated Tasmanian Devil (including birds, squirrels, rabbits, rats, lizards, snakes and fish). Still I laughed when I saw what this one was eating. How undignified. <\/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":[332,897,896,54,218,892],"class_list":["post-9064","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-focus","tag-american-crow","tag-dew-worm","tag-earthworm","tag-oakville","tag-red-tailed-hawk","tag-winston-woods"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/naturalcrooks.com\/rambles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9064","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=9064"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/naturalcrooks.com\/rambles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9064\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9104,"href":"https:\/\/naturalcrooks.com\/rambles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9064\/revisions\/9104"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/naturalcrooks.com\/rambles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naturalcrooks.com\/rambles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naturalcrooks.com\/rambles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/a><\/p>\nNo Where Safe to Sit for Solitary Red-tailed Hawk<\/h2>\n
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\nIt is hard to see in this blurred photo, but the hawk’s tail is starting to get the red of an adult bird.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\nNobody Likes Me; Everybody Hates Me; I’m Going to Eat Some Worms<\/h2>\n
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\nHave you seen any large birds being harassed by smaller ones in the nesting season? Please share your experience with a comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"