Wow!  This needs to go someplace for permanent record of the behavior.

Sherry, have you considered submitting it to a journal or to one of the
popular bird magazines?

Edge Wade
Columbia, MO
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On Thursday, April 1, 2004, at 08:40 AM, McCowan, Sherry wrote:

> I knew that Red-tailed Hawks were versatile birds, but I never expected
> to see this.  Early this morning a group of Cedar Waxwings in Forest
> Park (St. Louis city) flew when a Red-tailed Hawk flew towards them.
> The hawk perched, and withing a few minutes the waxwings regrouped and
> instead of mobbing the hawk, perched alongside it.  They began passing a
> berry of some sort amongst themselves - and the hawk joined in!  It
> dropped the first four berries that were passed to it, but was able to
> successfully, although a bit awkwardly, pass the fifth one to the
> waxwing on its other side.  I never heard of a group of small birds
> welcoming a raptor in their midst or of a raptor adopting the behavior
> of such birds.
>
> Stranger than fiction!
>
> Sherry McCowan
> St. Louis, Missouri
>
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