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Thread ID: 18849 | Posts: 8 | Started: 2005-06-26
2005-06-26 18:15 | User Profile
On the way to the grocery store this morning I was at a stoplight and i noticed a blackbird/grackel swooping at a big fox squirrel. First time the grackel nearly knocked the squirrel from the top of the fence. On the next swoop, the squirrel jumped up and latched on to the grackel. I had my window down and could hear the grackel make shreaks of agony ive never heard them make before. I guess ive never seen one suffer that close (my 12ga usually just turns them into a ball of feathers).
The squirrel managed to come back down from the air and land with its rear feet on the fence and its mouth and front feet dug into the grackel. After a few seconds the grackel managed to get away.
squirrel vs grackel,
squirrel is the winner [img]http://www.flex.net/~lonestar/foxsq.jpg[/img] [img]http://www.montereybay.com/creagrus/Grackle_greatt-m-rob2.jpg[/img]
2005-06-27 00:45 | User Profile
The mockingbirds around here are always beating the crap outta squirrels.
2005-06-27 00:48 | User Profile
[QUOTE=Jaybird]The mockingbirds around here are always beating the crap outta squirrels.[/QUOTE]
Can't you find some other website to infect with your adolescent dribble? :yucky:
2005-06-27 00:56 | User Profile
Sounds like a good fight. We came back from Tahoe this afternoon and half way down the western slope of the Sierras was a dead grizzly bear on the side of the road. First time I've ever seen that.
2005-06-27 01:05 | User Profile
When the apples are up I always knock a few of them down for the deers but then it is a race at night time between the deers and the bear to see who is going to get to them first.
2005-06-27 01:09 | User Profile
I like bears but not in my neighborhood.
2005-06-27 08:06 | User Profile
[QUOTE=Jaybird]The mockingbirds around here are always beating the crap outta squirrels.[/QUOTE]
Indeed. Those mockingbirds are fearless and honery. I've had 'em come after me if I happened to stumble too close to their nests.
'Course they're the state bird of the once great state of Texas, so that ought to tell you something.
2005-06-27 16:43 | User Profile
Lol Tex.