Posted on 04/07/2013 at 10:35 AM
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I'm all better now, thanks! Seems to have just been one of those 48 hour things.
Eagles aren't well-liked by a lot of other birds. I've watched crow families gang up on them and drive them away. That behavior is known as "mobbing", by the way. Crows will do it to any animal or bird that they perceive as a threat to the family. I saw them drive a pair of ravens out of a tree down the road a couple of mornings ago, and they did the same thing with a hawk or eagle in one of the trees in the front yard a week or so ago. I've also seen them drive a fox out of a thicket next to a parking lot where the poor beast had holed up for the day. Consider crows to be the alarm system for the whole forest, lol.