Last week I posted a photo of a Clark’s nutcracker and described it killing and eating a pine grosbeak. Two days later, I was in the backyard with my dog when a nutcracker attacked another grosbeak. My dog ran towards the commotion, scaring the nutcracker away. The grosbeak sat dazed on the snow. I grabbed my dog to prevent her from grabbing the grosbeak and the bird flew off before I could see how badly it was hurt. Yesterday this bird showed up at one of my feeders. You can see the injury behind the eye where the shadow from a branch crosses the head. I’m making a huge assumption, but I’m guessing this is the same bird. Injury aside, he seemed healthy and active. Since the first predation, I made changes to my feeders to discourage the nutcrackers from coming around and they rarely do so now.