Hunter or hunted!

Visited Theosophical society after many months, today. Spotted the usual friends - the spotted owlets, Sunbirds, Roufus treepies and Oriental Magpie Robins. 

Found a juvenile Rose-ringed, while walking along the usual path. At first I didn't realise it couldn't fly. I wondered what it was doing on the ground. Crows were trying to attack it. Luckily, one employee rescued it and took it to provide protection.

While walking back to the exit, heard a lot of noise - a shikra calling frantically and calls of several crows. Turned back to see a Shikra flying so low almost towards me and then changing direction, with the crows in pursuit. The next second, the Shikra was gone. The crows perched on a nearby tree looking for the Shikra, gave up after sometime, and finally left. 

All the while, the Shikra was in a branch on the same tree, though well hidden. It was sitting there silently and after sometime moved a bit, revealing the reason for the crows pursuit. The Shikra had hunted a squirrel and the crows, which are not adept at hunting, tried to snatch it from the Shikra. The hunter had ,in a way, become, the hunted! The Shikra started finishing its meal after ensuring that there was no one there to snatch it away.