I am Stella, Queen of the Olde English Bulldogges, and a witness to an epic battle in the sky over our home.
Me: I’m not sure it was epic. Probably happens all the time.
Stella: There were these 2 hawks. And there was this group of crows…all of them yelling. CAW! CAW! CAW!
Me: A murder of crows.
Stella: Say again?
Me: A flock of crows is called a ‘murder’ of crows. I know. Weird.
Stella: Scary. The crows drove the hawks away, but they did not murder them.
Me: No. I counted 7 crows all flying at the hawks at once. Not many, but enough. The hawks hightailed it.
Stella: Where did they go?
Me: Back to their home. I saw a nest not far from here. The crows can’t let them stay around. The hawks will rob their nests.
Stella: Hawks are robbers? But they are so beautiful.
Me: And hawks can carry off small animals, well, small to medium animals.
Stella: Carry off? As in flying off with animals? To teach them to fly?
Me: Not exactly.
Stella: Why then?
Me: Hawks are predators and they hunt for their food and they have great eyesight so when they see an animal on the ground, they swoop down and…
Stella: Carry them off for food! Animals like…bulldogs?
Me: I have not heard of…
Stella: But bulldogs are too big, too heavy, right? How much can hawks pick up?
Me: I’ve heard from 6 to 60 pounds so…
Stella: So, no bulldogs. We weigh more than 60 pounds, right, Lady Human? Lady Human?
Me: Well, Tiger weighs about 75 and so does Snoopey. Wiggles weighs 70. Miss Sweetie is a tank. She weighs 81 and a half. Doodlebug, he’s usually around 79.
Stella: And me? Tell me I weigh more than 60 pounds.
Me: As it happens, you’re a little lightweight for an OEB. You weigh 50.
Stella: Please tell me that 50 is more than 60.
Me: Not exactly.
Stella: AAAAGGGGHHHH! I’m hawk food!
Me: These hawks aren’t the biggest, so I don’t think there’s any chance…
Stella: But they have friends!
Me: They tend to work alone.
Stella: Then why were there 2 of them?
Me: Hey, seven little bitty ole crows chased them off.
Stella: That’s the ticket! We need to recruit more crows. Get several murders of them working for us. We can share the chicken feed with them. The chickens won’t mind. You won’t let me go out alone while the hawks are around, will you? Do you weigh more than 60 pounds?
Me: Yep. I’d say so.
Copyright 2018 H.J. Hill All Rights Reserved.
Bulldoggy 
They carried off a Pomeranian in the movie the proposal but that weighs considerably less than you Stella.
LikeLiked by 1 person
This was the first time I have seen two together. The crows did a great job protecting their turf. Our chickens are pretty safe from anything big like a hawk, but some neighbors a few miles north have been seeing an influx of bobcats, and coyotes are a more common sight around here than they used to be. I read that a man witnessed his little dog being carried away by an eagle the other day. It was in Pennsylvania, I think. The dog was later found alive but injured.
LikeLiked by 1 person
That’s a terrible story. Maybe it was an eagle in the movie. I did learn that a flock of crows was a murder. Never knew that!!!!
LikeLiked by 1 person