just seen a red kite kill a crow...

[Nightmare]

driving through Welham green i stopped to watch a pair of crows hounding a red kit (not unusual)

however as I watched the kite obviously decided it had just had enough, turned sharply and caught the crows wing with a claw and simply tore about half of it off. cue crow dropping like a stone and the other fleeing. never seen anything like it...anyone else?

[Sam_68]

Not a kite, but I've seen buzzards turning on crows a few times, yes (plenty of both where I live, so they come into conflict quite a bit).

[Dilligaf10]

Saw a load of crows mobbing a red kite along the M4 this morning, he made a lunge at one of them and then flew off.

The kite was close to their nesting site.

[Turn7]

Buzzards at work get hounded by crows on a daily basis.

[Who me ?]

I've seen black backed gulls take out a small bird for food. Not un common . In the north fishing ports, it was common for fishermen to trap a black back gull to sit on deck to fend off gull attempts to get at the catch being of loaded . The gull was usually treated to a feed,as fishermen are very superstitious about harming animals and gulls, believing them to be connected with past lives .

[Simpo Two]

You know at first glance that thread title reads 'just seen a red kite kill a cow...'

[Turn7]

Simpo Two said:

You know at first glance that thread title reads 'just seen a red kite kill a cow...'

I hope you dont have a wedding tomo....

[Simpo Two]

I hope there are no red kites there tomorrow

[Nightmare]

Simpo Two said:

You know at first glance that thread title reads 'just seen a red kite kill a cow...'

now that would be bloody impressive to see - especially if it carried it off afterwards!

[Nightmare]

Sam_68 said:

Not a kite, but I've seen buzzards turning on crows a few times, yes (plenty of both where I live, so they come into conflict quite a bit).

before i posted i thought you'd be the most likely person to have done so if anyone had. i must have seen b.o.p.s being hounded 50 times at least....never seen anything like that though. still not convinced it was a deliberate attack as much as the talon catching the wing.....but was definitely a bit of a shocker!

[MaxMX5]

I was out walking one day and saw 2 Coots drown a Crow by sitting on it in a pond. I am guessing the Crow trying to pick off one of the babies and the Coots thought that they would get their own back.