Corvids like to harass owls. And eagles. But in this case, owls. Normally, several ravens or magpies will mob an owl, but Saturday morning, there was just one raven fighting the local great horned owl. The owl won. I couldn't get any photos of that part of the fight, they were moving too fast between the trees. I did get photos of what followed, thusly:
The colours are atrocious because it was all backlit and I edited it with MS Office 2010, as I don't have PhotoShop. Anyway. The magpie, who had wisely kept out of the fight, stayed after the raven left, and kept coming up from below the owl and trying to pinch his tail feathers. Every time the owl would turn around, the magpie would duck behind the tree, and then come up the other side and grab at his tail feathers again.
Animals have such interesting lives.
The colours are atrocious because it was all backlit and I edited it with MS Office 2010, as I don't have PhotoShop. Anyway. The magpie, who had wisely kept out of the fight, stayed after the raven left, and kept coming up from below the owl and trying to pinch his tail feathers. Every time the owl would turn around, the magpie would duck behind the tree, and then come up the other side and grab at his tail feathers again.
Animals have such interesting lives.
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