Yesterday evening, I watched a fascinating tussle between a hawk and several crows in Bramalea in a wooded area. The hawk was perched high up in a willow tree, with a a bunch of crows cawing and slouching around, and slowly moving from branch to branch. Every now and then, the hawk, took off after one of the crows, and there was a extraordinarily agile and very close chase through the trees for 5 or 6 seconds, before the hawk broke off and went back to a branch. The hawk seemed very agitated about the crows, looking around nervously the whole time it was perching.
It was too high up to make much of it, but I could see:
1. Tail was medium to long.
2. Tail was heavily barred (black and white)
3. Breast showed no strong marks - just a uniform grey , but this may have been the poor light.
4. Smallish head and beak.
5. A tad shorted than a crow.
I have some ideas but some help would be appreciated.
