On Saturday, 4/7/18, I was leaving work at the hotel by the MSP airport at 2pm. A kestrel was 3 feet on the ground flying hastily in a panic away from a pursuing crow. I was turning onto American Blvd. so I did not see the whole transaction, but a minute later the crow was flying away northwest with something in its beak, a vole or mouse I presumed, robbed from the hungry, smaller enterprising kestrel forced to give up its tasty morsel on a cold Minnesota afternoon.
I have never seen anything like this before. There are many behaviors in nature that we do not know occur until we see them. The law of the jungle and the struggle for life and death is an endless, fascinating battle.
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