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Writer's pictureEileen Carlson

Nature Notebook

Mob (v.): to crowd and attack or annoy. The red-shouldered hawk that hunts around my backyard was on the receiving end of that definition. It burst out of the neighbor’s tree with several house finches chasing behind it. When the nest predator was well out-of-range, the finches returned home.

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