Crow Eating a Blackbird
Nov 18th, 2007 by Birdy Trish
Hi folks, The other day I was driving slowly along a one track , high hedged lane. Movement in the hedge bottom caught my eye. I stopped the car. As I looked out of the car window I saw a crow in the hedgebottom and it was eating something.
The crow was oblivious to me. I’ve found that birds often seem to ignore cars. I thought I would take a minute or two to investigate.
The crow was tucking into a meal. It was eating a blackbird. I watched mesmerised as it tossed the dead bird about and made a meal of it. I couldn’t stop watching.
Had this crow killed this blackbird?
I’ve seen crows on the roadside eating birds that have been killed by cars, but this was different.
We have crows near our house and we also have a variety of garden birds. I have never thought that the crows may actually kill any of these garden birds. I have seen crows and blackbirds in the garden at the same time.
As I was sitting in my car I had a view into the wild life of Britain. Other times I’ve been walking outside and not seen anything. Life can be strange sometimes.
Tags: blackbird, blackbirds, crow, crows, eating
We have a breeding pair of blackbirds in our garden (or did have). The female was wise and had learnt to flap her wings to balance herself whilst she fed on the feeder that she was not meant to fit on to. Unfortunately, I have just witnessed a crow, pluck her out of the hedge row, and despite my efforts to scare it to drop her, the crow flew off and promptly devoured her. So yes crows do kill birds…Not so keen on crows at the moment