Reply #7: yeah, crows fighting hawk sounds like being forced to write w/ your off hand.

[NuttyFluffers]

certain behaviors and skills we are really good at, but sometimes life asks us to "write left-handed," if you will. having a hawk essence but a crow path is definitely anticipating some tension in the future -- even if they have been currently good at avoiding each other's space. crows are cool in that they are one of the few mid-sized nesting birds that can put up enough concerted aggression to make a large raptor think twice. another weird one that does that is the hummingbird; they are known to challenge eagles in their territory. always wondered what mentally goes through an eagle's mind being harassed by a hummingbird...

crows are also one of 4 (or is it 5 now) animals known to science to make their own tools. it's a very exclusive club! they have been observed bending a straight wire into a hook to fish out meat from a PVC tube. they've also been seen using cars at stop signs to crack walnuts and other nuts for them. they wait with a nut in their beak by the stop sign, wait for a car to stop, then place the nut in front of the car's tires and hop back to safety to wait. this was seen first in northern Japan, but now i see neighborhood crows doing the same -- someone, somewhere has been using a phone tree to spread the word.


by the way, i've always thought that my totem was the stuffed animal, with at most a snake, spider, or ghost nestled nearby. often it's just a stuffed animal; there's no aggression or wild potency. so when people ask what i think my totem is i just reply "Winnie the Pooh." honestly, who goes around attacking Pooh bears?

and to imagine a Pooh bear viciously mauling a sick horse sounds crrrrazy! what do i do? snuggle it's nose and smother it to death with hugs?