This morning, my husband called me out of the house to witness a fracas
taking place in a spruce tree in our yard. A pair of Robins were
frantically alarm-calling and repeatedly flying at a chipmunk sitting on a
branch near their nest, and in the midst of eating one of their nestlings.
We did but we could to scare away the chipmunk, but the damage was done. As
the chipmunk took off, it dropped the nestling, which I found in the tall
grass. It was perhaps a couple days old, Quite dead, with a hole in its
chest. We are hoping there were other nestlings in there, but the nest is
too high up to see inside. Thought I'd share as I recall the earlier
conversation on the listserv about chipmunks and nestlings.
Melissa Groo
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