May 6, 2013 at 7:48 pm
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amalia
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Datamuse spelled it out well – they get very aggressive during nesting. I was hit in the head by one in Wallingford once as I walked under its nest. Got hit by a red-winged blackbird once as well during breeding, and once by a kestrel (although in the kestrel’s defense, I was on a ladder with my hand in the nest box). The crow and blackbird incidents were pretty shocking! You just don’t expect bird attacks.