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Snowy Owl (harassed by crows)

Bubo scandiacus

Photo by Tom15
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Field Notes

Notes:

This is one of a few Snowy Owls that has spent the winter at Salisbury State Park, and today a pair of crows were dive bombing it.

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Comments (4)
Tom15
Thanks Christy. The owl didn't seem too concerned and the crows moved on after a few passes at the owl. It's on the raptor mission where I meant to put it originally:-)
ChristyHolland
I love this kind of interaction! Great series! It was probably like big flies around his head...he only needed to shoo them away! ;-) I'd love this in the Raptor mission, Tom!
Tom15
Thanks Rieko. The crows bothered the owl for a minute or so then flew off. They never hit the owl, but came very close, and the owl was still in that tree when I left 30 minutes later.
RiekoS
Very nice series, Tom. I hope snowy owls was okay...

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Interaction between different species of Arthropods
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Raptors of North America
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Wildlife of Northeastern USA
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Birds - Northeast US
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PublishedMarch 20, 2014

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