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By Bill Stokes
Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that the keeper takes bird incidents where he can get them from the 5th floor bird-isolated location where he and Phyllis reside, and therefore it was with some excitement that he watched an obviously pissed-off crow chase another crow across the parking area and out of sight behind the high school.
This was not playful chasing among crow family members, this was serious stuff that telegraphed the message from the pursuing crow that it intended to inflict great pain onto the point of death on the other crow.
Once at another former location, the keeper had an unobstructed winter view of a crow perched high in a tree as it ate a frozen bluegill. The question of that day obviously was where the hell did the crow get a frozen bluegill?
The question of the current crow action is: why was one crow chasing the other? Birders say crows chase each other to defend mates, protect territory and claim food.
The keeper, in his sparse bird watching opportunity, chooses to take things a step further and contend that the first crow was being aggressively pursued because at the last “murder” it had cawed that it was a lie that there would be a spring season complete with flowers and robins, and this failure was all part of a liberal plot by the Dems. There is also the possibility, according to the keeper, that the crow being chased out was named Johnson.
