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Wednesday about noon, while walking the Sand Creek Trail, I heard some loud cries coming from a area of mature oaks opposite the trail on the other side of Sand Creek. Finally I saw a hawk with a bird in it's talons, on a horizontal limb. I could hear another hawk calling/screaming/crying in the same vicinity. Caught glimpses of them cruising through the woods in PAIRS! One flew to a slender branch alongside the creek approximately 20-25 feet away at eye level. AMAZING! We checked each other out for 2,3 minutes. I think they are Juvenile Cooper's Hawks. Beautiful brown on the head and back. White, white breast with strong brown streaking. Looked absolutely huge through my bins. I spent about an hour there listening and catching glimpses of them through the trees. When i got home, I listened to Peterson's Eastern Bird Songs, and these hawks sounded just like the Northern Goshawks. ??????????? The Sand Creek Trail segment was located: just west of Olive Street. and 121st. The closest cul-de-sac being 120th Avenue NW, off Sycamore. Sandy Kuder Coon Rapids __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com --0-1788974269-1154627254=:8412 Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit <DIV>Wednesday about noon, while walking the Sand Creek Trail, I heard some loud cries coming from a area of mature oaks opposite the trail on the other side of Sand Creek.</DIV> <DIV>Finally I saw a hawk with a bird in it's talons, on a horizontal limb. I could hear another hawk calling/screaming/crying in the same vicinity. Caught glimpses of them cruising through the woods in PAIRS! One flew to a slender branch alongside the creek approximately 20-25 feet away at eye level. AMAZING! We checked each other out for 2,3 minutes. I think they are Juvenile Cooper's Hawks. Beautiful brown on the head and back. White, white breast with strong brown streaking. Looked absolutely huge through my bins.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>I spent about an hour there listening and catching glimpses of them through the trees.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>When i got home, I listened to Peterson's Eastern Bird Songs, and these hawks sounded just like the Northern Goshawks. ???????????</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>The Sand Creek Trail segment was located: just west of Olive Street. and 121st. The closest cul-de-sac being 120th Avenue NW, off Sycamore. </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Sandy Kuder</DIV> <DIV>Coon Rapids</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV> </DIV><p> __________________________________________________<br>Do You Yahoo!?<br>Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around <br>http://mail.yahoo.com --0-1788974269-1154627254=:8412--