I once observed a common grackle kill and eat a house sparrow. David A. Brinkman 1631 Kellywood Ave. Cincinnati, OH 45238 [log in to unmask] Middle Childhood Education, Xavier University Sent from my iPhone On May 15, 2012, at 10:17 PM, [log in to unmask] wrote: > Yesterday at lunch I walked down to the intake/outlet at the Avon Lake > Powerhouse and observed a grackle go in the water from a float that is used to > stop driftwood. My first I thought was not a good place to take a bath. Too > deep. But it jumped back on the float with a live minnow, shook the water > off and flew back to the powerhouse. A few minutes later it did the same > thing but had a gizzard shad. My co worker and I observed this behavior a > few more times before lunch was over. > Has anyone ever observed this before? > Lou Gardella > Garfield Heights > > ______________________________________________________________________ > > Ohio-birds mailing list, a service of the Ohio Ornithological Society. > Our thanks to Miami University for hosting this mailing list. > Additional discussions can be found in our forums, at www.ohiobirds.org/forum/. > > You can join or leave the list, or change your options, at: > http://listserv.muohio.edu/scripts/wa.exe?LIST=OHIO-BIRDS > Send questions or comments about the list to: [log in to unmask] ______________________________________________________________________ Ohio-birds mailing list, a service of the Ohio Ornithological Society. Our thanks to Miami University for hosting this mailing list. Additional discussions can be found in our forums, at www.ohiobirds.org/forum/. You can join or leave the list, or change your options, at: http://listserv.muohio.edu/scripts/wa.exe?LIST=OHIO-BIRDS Send questions or comments about the list to: [log in to unmask]