Identifier: birdlore11nati (find matches)
Title: Bird-lore
Year: 1899 (1890s)
Authors: National Association of Audubon Societies for the Protection of Wild Birds and Animals
Subjects: Birds -- Periodicals Birds -- Conservation Periodicals
Publisher: New York, National Association of Audubon Societies
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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rrangements as to fo( us, etc .. I placed my mouth at another knot-hole and gaveutterance to the call of the liarred ()wl. Within a moment or two the expectedres;)onsc came from a neighboring wood, and \er\ shortly the usual throng otCrows had gathered at the part of the \voo(l> nearest to the tree in which I wasconcealed. From this i)oint, however, the birds hesitated to make an advanceinto the open, either because their sus))ici()ns were anniscd, or because they werenot accustomed to lind ( )wls so far from dense cover. Ior s:)me time, thcrefoic.they circled oxcrhea 1 in winged reconnaisance. until one of the l)ir(i> actually (4) The Feud of the Crows and the Owl 5 saw the mounled Owl in the tree hclow. Caution was at once abandoned and,utterinK the battle-crv of his kind, he, with his fellows, advanced to the attack. Adozen or more of the birds took up positions in or near the tree in which the Owlsat so .calmly, and screamed their notes of defiance almost in his unresponsive
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wArnxo IOk the crows face. But in s))ite of the fact that the dummy bird showed no signs of resentmentor of attempt at defence, there appeared now to be considerable hesitation on thepart of the Crows as to which one should actually strike the first blow. So far asvoice alone was concerned, each one seemed to do his best to call Icnider thanhis fellow, and one could readil)- imagine that each i^rd was urging his neighborto open the campaign. This continued for some time until finally one of the Crows mustered suffi-cient courage actually to strike the Owl, and it was exceedingly interesting to 6 Bird - Lore observe that the fraud was apparently detected in a moment. The calls of theCrows changed rapidly and, in an instant, every bird left the vicinity, and, cawingloudly, returned to the woods; nor did I succeed, in spite of the most alluringhoots, in inducing them to return to the attack. A comparison of the action of these birds with those of Blue Jays under notdissimilar circumstanc

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