[cayugabirds-l] Cooper's Hawk

[Suan Hsi Yong]

On my evening jog I came upon a Cooper's Hawk in the middle of Terrace
View Drive. I initially felt bad when I flushed it carrying a prey to
a nearby tree, but soon a car came by which would no doubt have
flushed it anyways. Must have been just freshly caught. Prey looked
dark and biggish, likely a starling.

Suan

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[cayugabirds-l] Cooper's Hawk

[Tim Gallagher]

I observed something interesting this morning while walking my dog on Main 
Street in Freeville. I heard the food-begging call of a Cooper's Hawk coming 
from the front of a house just past a big hedge. I carefully peeked past the 
hedge and spotted the bird, a juvenile female Cooper's Hawk, sitting on the 
porch rail and facing the house. Perhaps it saw its reflection in the window 
and was calling to it. Anyway, it took off, flying across Main Street and 
disappeared between some houses along the creek.

Last month, on December 6, I saw something similar—but this time it involved an 
adult female Cooper's Hawk and a juvenile male, which was following her around 
through the trees beside some houses and calling like the one this morning. I 
thought at the time that December seemed very late for a young hawk to be 
following its parent around, begging for food. I'd only heard that call before 
in the late spring and summer around Cooper's Hawk nests.

Has anyone else heard Cooper's Hawk food-begging calls in the winter?

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[cayugabirds-l] Cooper's Hawk

[Alberto Lopez]

Did my first winter birding/photography in my life today and I had a  
awesome visitor today. I was taking some pictures of the birds that  
were visiting my feeder (Titmouse, Starlings, BC Chickadee, WB  
nuthatch and DE junco), then all of a sudden there was a surge of  
Cardinals around 9-12 feeding on fruits around my feeder. While I was  
taking some pictures of the Cardinals, what I believe to be a Copper's  
Hawk dove in to try to capture some Cardinals but failed. All the  
birds that were calling kept quiet until the C. hawk decided to fly  
away, it was very impressive and it was my first C. hawk :). Here is a  
picture that I managed to take under the snow, I think my lens  
suffered a little, hope its ok.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/puertoricanwildlifephotography/4192680233/

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8 Country Club Road
Ithaca, NY 
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[cayugabirds-l] Cooper's hawk

[Carol Keeler]

It seems that the snowy weather brings in the Cooper's hawk. He came  
last time when it was snowing hard.  He (or she) was back again  
today.  Of course, there were many birds at the feeders due to the  
snow.  He left empty handed.  I just wish that when he did catch a  
bird it was one of my many english sparrows.  He landed in a new  
place where I could get a really good, diagnostic shot of him.  I  
have it on my website if you are interested.

http://www.pbase.com/image/121845865

I'm sure all the feeders down south of me (Ithaca in particular) will  
be bustling with birds at your feeders since you're getting the most  
snow.


Carol Keeler
Auburn 
  


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[cayugabirds-l] Cooper's Hawk

[Chris Pelkie]

Yesterday about 7am, returning to the house with the dog, as I turned the 
corner to the open garage door, a Cooper's Hawk flew out, I think from a perch 
(that is, he wasn't just flying in and then back out). He/she landed on an 
ornamental tree right in front of the house briefly, turned and eyeballed me 
and doggie, then decided to beat feet as we were only 20' away.

Now, I'm an amateur and I know Sharpies are quite similar, but I reread all the 
ID notes on both and having ID'd a Cooper's in the back woods a couple years 
back by sight and his call, and another (or same) doing a surprise attack on a 
crow in the front yard, I'm leaning to Cooper over Sharpie. Looked rather 
large, distinct tail bands, curved tail profile though this was best seen in 
his low-level maneuvering from garage to tree then away, so maybe Sharpie tails 
are also curved in full flare?

I know why he was there: there's a gang of House Sparrows in residence in a 
still-green and very thick vine we have on the front of the garage who patrol 
the bird-feeder on the front porch. Also, there are a few MODOs eating the corn 
on the porch, so one or the other was to be breakfast.

What I can't figure out is what he could have found to perch on: the most 
likely spot near the door is the top of my tool cabinet, but it has a rather 
slick piece of MDF on it. Maybe the handle? Not sure, as he saw me first and 
flew out before I could see where he started from. The other interesting note 
is that the door had only been open for about 10 min since dog and me exited to 
begin the walk, so this was an opportunistic hawk!

_
Chris Pelkie - 607-254-1108 - chris.pel...@cornell.edu
Research Analyst - Bioacoustics Research Program
Cornell Lab of Ornithology
159 Sapsucker Woods Road
Ithaca, NY 14850


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[cayugabirds-l] Cooper's Hawk

[joe & Diana]

We had an interesting evening last night when our daughter Heather called to 
tell us that she had a hawk that was acting strangely in her yard. It had been 
sitting on a car unconcerned by barking dogs, children, or curious people 
walking by. She wondered if it was in need of help. I called a wildlife 
rehabilitater, but could not reach her. We all jumped in the car and I brought 
my camera equipment. When we arrived, the bird had jumped into a shrub next to 
the car. While I peered at it from the other side of the car, it jumped out as 
if to say hello. It seemed unafraid, and very curious. I sat down on the ground 
 about 12 feet away and it started hopping towards my shoe. Next stop for a 
perch was my leg and I softly shooshed it away.  I stood up and we got it some 
water that it did not drink. Then, it tried to fly up on the car and eventually 
made his way to the wipers where it got some purchase. It did not look injured 
, but rather clumsy, so now I was  thinking it might be tired and a very young 
bird. Its feathers looked like they were in, but I am no expert in that field. 
I took some photos as the light dwindled while waiting to see if it could fly. 
It eventually did make a short flight to a tree across the street.  I was 
satisfied that it was not obviously injured and thought it best to let it be.  
It is our granddaughter Ella's first raptor though Grandma was more excited to 
see a Cooper so close. Let's hope after a rest, it can resume  today. 

I am wondering when the Cooper's Hawk Young fledge and if anyone has any better 
insight into this behavior. 
Here is a link to photos of the bird. It really is a wonderful experience to 
see it so close!

http://www.dianawhitingphotography.com/Galleries/Favorites/Favorites-2012/20867945_qgj48g#!i=2017309617&k=JQ6nbXM
  

Diana Whiting
Diana Whiting
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[cayugabirds-l] Cooper's Hawk

[Carol Keeler]

My Cooper's Hawk has made counting birds for the Backyard Bird Count 
impossible.  It's been here each day, so no birds are coming to the feeders.  
Yesterday it took a female Cardinal.  This morning it sat in the weeping pine 
where the feeders are located from at least 7:15 to 8:30. I was amazed at how 
long it stayed. I don't know how much longer it stayed since I left to get 
groceries.  One photographer from out west, Ron Dudley, has said that in very 
cold weather many raptors are "sticky".   They tend to stay put and don't flush 
easily.  My Cooper's was sticky this morning.  I looked out just a while ago 
and it was back again, but didn't stay long.  I assume it has had quite a bit 
of success hunting in my yard since it's around so often.

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[cayugabirds-l] Cooper's Hawk

[Meena Madhav Haribal]

Today when I got back home from work, I entered from the backyard. From among 
the shrubbery of lilacs and some other plants flew out a Copper's Hawk, which 
seemed to have been having a quiet meal and got disturbed by my arrival, landed 
on a Maple branch quite  in open just a few feet from me. I watched him and he 
watched me for some time and then I headed towards the back door while he still 
sat there watching me. I came inside and after a while I looked for him from my 
bedroom. He was still there. Another five minutes later he was gone.  He seemed 
gorgeous in the low evening light!



Also from the bus I watched the trees, when the sun was hitting the trees from 
the back there were sparklers on the trees (basically due to ice) and they 
shined from various angles of sun quite differently. It was very beautiful!



Meena



Meena Haribal
Ithaca NY 14850

42.429007,-76.47111
http://haribal.org/
http://meenaharibal.blogspot.com/



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Re: [cayugabirds-l] Cooper's Hawk

[Tim Gallagher]

Hi Lea,

It certainly might have been a Cooper's Hawk that killed your chicken. We also 
have Great Horned Owls and Red-tailed Hawks in and around the village. This 
time of year, a lot of juvenile raptors are starving and desperate to catch 
something to eat. Most of them don't survive until spring. If a desperately 
hungry hawk sees a chicken out in the open, not protected by chicken wire, 
there's a decent chance it will attack it—which is completely understandable.

The Cooper's Hawks I've seen in the village might be local birds. I found a 
Cooper's Hawk nest a few years ago in the swamp behind the school. Maybe they 
nested there again last spring.

Best wishes,

Tim


From: Lea LSF 
Sent: Sunday, January 17, 2021 6:13 PM
To: Tim Gallagher 
Subject: Re: [cayugabirds-l] Cooper's Hawk

Hi Tim,
I live at 22 Main Street in the village, and have observed what my best guess 
told me was a Cooper's Hawk hanging out in a tree over my chicken yard a 
handful of times.  Recently, an animal killed one of my chickens.  I'm guessing 
by the amount of chicken feathers around that it was a hawk who took the 
chicken out, though I don't know if a Cooper's Hawk is big enough.  I am so 
curious about whether this pair that you observed is living nearby. It does 
seem strange to have a food-begging hawk tagging along a parent during winter! 
I'll have to learn the begging call and listen out for it now. I wonder now 
that I'm writing this if hawks even live in one place during the winter, 
whether they even stay in their nests or move around.  I hope you get some 
fruitful responses to your question!
Best Wishes,
Lea

On Sun, Jan 17, 2021 at 12:36 PM Tim Gallagher 
mailto:t...@cornell.edu>> wrote:
I observed something interesting this morning while walking my dog on Main 
Street in Freeville. I heard the food-begging call of a Cooper's Hawk coming 
from the front of a house just past a big hedge. I carefully peeked past the 
hedge and spotted the bird, a juvenile female Cooper's Hawk, sitting on the 
porch rail and facing the house. Perhaps it saw its reflection in the window 
and was calling to it. Anyway, it took off, flying across Main Street and 
disappeared between some houses along the creek.

Last month, on December 6, I saw something similar—but this time it involved an 
adult female Cooper's Hawk and a juvenile male, which was following her around 
through the trees beside some houses and calling like the one this morning. I 
thought at the time that December seemed very late for a young hawk to be 
following its parent around, begging for food. I'd only heard that call before 
in the late spring and summer around Cooper's Hawk nests.

Has anyone else heard Cooper's Hawk food-begging calls in the winter?
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Re: [cayugabirds-l] Cooper's Hawk

[Donna Lee Scott]

Hi Tim
Why don’t hawks or even eagles (many here by the lake) kill gray squirrels, of 
which I have many bird-seed-fattened individuals in my big yard? Yard Has tall 
trees & 2 fairly open expanses.

Coopers or Sharpies occasionally kill birds near feeders here.
A few years ago I watched a Bald Eagle drop from a tree on my beach to catch a 
mink that had gone to water’s edge to drink. It flew up into another tree and 
ate it.
Thx
Donna

Donna Scott
Lansing
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On Jan 18, 2021, at 10:47 AM, Tim Gallagher 
mailto:t...@cornell.edu>> wrote:

Hi Lea,

It certainly might have been a Cooper's Hawk that killed your chicken. We also 
have Great Horned Owls and Red-tailed Hawks in and around the village. This 
time of year, a lot of juvenile raptors are starving and desperate to catch 
something to eat. Most of them don't survive until spring. If a desperately 
hungry hawk sees a chicken out in the open, not protected by chicken wire, 
there's a decent chance it will attack it—which is completely understandable.

The Cooper's Hawks I've seen in the village might be local birds. I found a 
Cooper's Hawk nest a few years ago in the swamp behind the school. Maybe they 
nested there again last spring.

Best wishes,

Tim


From: Lea LSF mailto:leaelles...@gmail.com>>
Sent: Sunday, January 17, 2021 6:13 PM
To: Tim Gallagher mailto:t...@cornell.edu>>
Subject: Re: [cayugabirds-l] Cooper's Hawk

Hi Tim,
I live at 22 Main Street in the village, and have observed what my best guess 
told me was a Cooper's Hawk hanging out in a tree over my chicken yard a 
handful of times.  Recently, an animal killed one of my chickens.  I'm guessing 
by the amount of chicken feathers around that it was a hawk who took the 
chicken out, though I don't know if a Cooper's Hawk is big enough.  I am so 
curious about whether this pair that you observed is living nearby. It does 
seem strange to have a food-begging hawk tagging along a parent during winter! 
I'll have to learn the begging call and listen out for it now. I wonder now 
that I'm writing this if hawks even live in one place during the winter, 
whether they even stay in their nests or move around.  I hope you get some 
fruitful responses to your question!
Best Wishes,
Lea

On Sun, Jan 17, 2021 at 12:36 PM Tim Gallagher 
mailto:t...@cornell.edu>> wrote:
I observed something interesting this morning while walking my dog on Main 
Street in Freeville. I heard the food-begging call of a Cooper's Hawk coming 
from the front of a house just past a big hedge. I carefully peeked past the 
hedge and spotted the bird, a juvenile female Cooper's Hawk, sitting on the 
porch rail and facing the house. Perhaps it saw its reflection in the window 
and was calling to it. Anyway, it took off, flying across Main Street and 
disappeared between some houses along the creek.

Last month, on December 6, I saw something similar—but this time it involved an 
adult female Cooper's Hawk and a juvenile male, which was following her around 
through the trees beside some houses and calling like the one this morning. I 
thought at the time that December seemed very late for a young hawk to be 
following its parent around, begging for food. I'd only heard that call before 
in the late spring and summer around Cooper's Hawk nests.

Has anyone else heard Cooper's Hawk food-begging calls in the winter?
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RE: [cayugabirds-l] Cooper's Hawk

[Linda Ann Woodard]

Hi Donna,
  A couple of weeks ago I watched a red-tail catch, kill and eat a grey 
squirrel in my yard. It pinned the squirrel and stayed motionless over it for 
at least five minutes until the squirrel  was dead. It took another 30 minutes 
or so for the hawk to eat its fill.  It left the remains on the ground.  Like 
you I have a large yard with lots of tall tress and open areas.
Linda
Cayuga Heights

From: bounce-125313909-3494...@list.cornell.edu 
 On Behalf Of Donna Lee Scott
Sent: Monday, January 18, 2021 10:56 AM
To: Tim Gallagher 
Cc: Lea LSF ; CAYUGABIRDS-L 

Subject: Re: [cayugabirds-l] Cooper's Hawk

Hi Tim
Why don’t hawks or even eagles (many here by the lake) kill gray squirrels, of 
which I have many bird-seed-fattened individuals in my big yard? Yard Has tall 
trees & 2 fairly open expanses.

Coopers or Sharpies occasionally kill birds near feeders here.
A few years ago I watched a Bald Eagle drop from a tree on my beach to catch a 
mink that had gone to water’s edge to drink. It flew up into another tree and 
ate it.
Thx
Donna
Donna Scott
Lansing
Sent from my iPhone

On Jan 18, 2021, at 10:47 AM, Tim Gallagher 
mailto:t...@cornell.edu>> wrote:
Hi Lea,

It certainly might have been a Cooper's Hawk that killed your chicken. We also 
have Great Horned Owls and Red-tailed Hawks in and around the village. This 
time of year, a lot of juvenile raptors are starving and desperate to catch 
something to eat. Most of them don't survive until spring. If a desperately 
hungry hawk sees a chicken out in the open, not protected by chicken wire, 
there's a decent chance it will attack it—which is completely understandable.

The Cooper's Hawks I've seen in the village might be local birds. I found a 
Cooper's Hawk nest a few years ago in the swamp behind the school. Maybe they 
nested there again last spring.

Best wishes,

Tim


From: Lea LSF mailto:leaelles...@gmail.com>>
Sent: Sunday, January 17, 2021 6:13 PM
To: Tim Gallagher mailto:t...@cornell.edu>>
Subject: Re: [cayugabirds-l] Cooper's Hawk

Hi Tim,
I live at 22 Main Street in the village, and have observed what my best guess 
told me was a Cooper's Hawk hanging out in a tree over my chicken yard a 
handful of times.  Recently, an animal killed one of my chickens.  I'm guessing 
by the amount of chicken feathers around that it was a hawk who took the 
chicken out, though I don't know if a Cooper's Hawk is big enough.  I am so 
curious about whether this pair that you observed is living nearby. It does 
seem strange to have a food-begging hawk tagging along a parent during winter! 
I'll have to learn the begging call and listen out for it now. I wonder now 
that I'm writing this if hawks even live in one place during the winter, 
whether they even stay in their nests or move around.  I hope you get some 
fruitful responses to your question!
Best Wishes,
Lea

On Sun, Jan 17, 2021 at 12:36 PM Tim Gallagher 
mailto:t...@cornell.edu>> wrote:
I observed something interesting this morning while walking my dog on Main 
Street in Freeville. I heard the food-begging call of a Cooper's Hawk coming 
from the front of a house just past a big hedge. I carefully peeked past the 
hedge and spotted the bird, a juvenile female Cooper's Hawk, sitting on the 
porch rail and facing the house. Perhaps it saw its reflection in the window 
and was calling to it. Anyway, it took off, flying across Main Street and 
disappeared between some houses along the creek.

Last month, on December 6, I saw something similar—but this time it involved an 
adult female Cooper's Hawk and a juvenile male, which was following her around 
through the trees beside some houses and calling like the one this morning. I 
thought at the time that December seemed very late for a young hawk to be 
following its parent around, begging for food. I'd only heard that call before 
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Re: [cayugabirds-l] Cooper's Hawk

[Donna Lee Scott]

Must be my fatties hide well when red tailed hawks perch above the yard!
Right now there are 10 SQs  visible😕.

Donna Scott
Lansing
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On Jan 18, 2021, at 11:13 AM, Linda Ann Woodard 
mailto:l...@cornell.edu>> wrote:

Hi Donna,
  A couple of weeks ago I watched a red-tail catch, kill and eat a grey 
squirrel in my yard. It pinned the squirrel and stayed motionless over it for 
at least five minutes until the squirrel  was dead. It took another 30 minutes 
or so for the hawk to eat its fill.  It left the remains on the ground.  Like 
you I have a large yard with lots of tall tress and open areas.
Linda
Cayuga Heights

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Sent: Monday, January 18, 2021 10:56 AM
To: Tim Gallagher mailto:t...@cornell.edu>>
Cc: Lea LSF mailto:leaelles...@gmail.com>>; 
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Subject: Re: [cayugabirds-l] Cooper's Hawk

Hi Tim
Why don’t hawks or even eagles (many here by the lake) kill gray squirrels, of 
which I have many bird-seed-fattened individuals in my big yard? Yard Has tall 
trees & 2 fairly open expanses.

Coopers or Sharpies occasionally kill birds near feeders here.
A few years ago I watched a Bald Eagle drop from a tree on my beach to catch a 
mink that had gone to water’s edge to drink. It flew up into another tree and 
ate it.
Thx
Donna
Donna Scott
Lansing
Sent from my iPhone

On Jan 18, 2021, at 10:47 AM, Tim Gallagher 
mailto:t...@cornell.edu>> wrote:
Hi Lea,

It certainly might have been a Cooper's Hawk that killed your chicken. We also 
have Great Horned Owls and Red-tailed Hawks in and around the village. This 
time of year, a lot of juvenile raptors are starving and desperate to catch 
something to eat. Most of them don't survive until spring. If a desperately 
hungry hawk sees a chicken out in the open, not protected by chicken wire, 
there's a decent chance it will attack it—which is completely understandable.

The Cooper's Hawks I've seen in the village might be local birds. I found a 
Cooper's Hawk nest a few years ago in the swamp behind the school. Maybe they 
nested there again last spring.

Best wishes,

Tim


From: Lea LSF mailto:leaelles...@gmail.com>>
Sent: Sunday, January 17, 2021 6:13 PM
To: Tim Gallagher mailto:t...@cornell.edu>>
Subject: Re: [cayugabirds-l] Cooper's Hawk

Hi Tim,
I live at 22 Main Street in the village, and have observed what my best guess 
told me was a Cooper's Hawk hanging out in a tree over my chicken yard a 
handful of times.  Recently, an animal killed one of my chickens.  I'm guessing 
by the amount of chicken feathers around that it was a hawk who took the 
chicken out, though I don't know if a Cooper's Hawk is big enough.  I am so 
curious about whether this pair that you observed is living nearby. It does 
seem strange to have a food-begging hawk tagging along a parent during winter! 
I'll have to learn the begging call and listen out for it now. I wonder now 
that I'm writing this if hawks even live in one place during the winter, 
whether they even stay in their nests or move around.  I hope you get some 
fruitful responses to your question!
Best Wishes,
Lea

On Sun, Jan 17, 2021 at 12:36 PM Tim Gallagher 
mailto:t...@cornell.edu>> wrote:
I observed something interesting this morning while walking my dog on Main 
Street in Freeville. I heard the food-begging call of a Cooper's Hawk coming 
from the front of a house just past a big hedge. I carefully peeked past the 
hedge and spotted the bird, a juvenile female Cooper's Hawk, sitting on the 
porch rail and facing the house. Perhaps it saw its reflection in the window 
and was calling to it. Anyway, it took off, flying across Main Street and 
disappeared between some houses along the creek.

Last month, on December 6, I saw something similar—but this time it involved an 
adult female Cooper's Hawk and a juvenile male, which was following her around 
through the trees beside some houses and calling like the one this morning. I 
thought at the time that December seemed very late for a young hawk to be 
following its parent around, begging for food. I'd only heard that call before 
in the late spring and summer around Cooper's Hawk nests.

Has anyone else heard Cooper's Hawk food-begging calls in the winter?
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Re: [cayugabirds-l] Cooper's Hawk

[Tim Gallagher]

Hi Donna,

Gray squirrels are actually a fairly common prey item for local Red-tailed 
Hawks. I even saw a red-tail try to catch one in the field behind my house. 
They can give a nasty bite to a hawk. I've trapped numerous red-tails over the 
years that have scars on their feet from squirrel bites.

Tim


From: Donna Lee Scott 
Sent: Monday, January 18, 2021 10:55 AM
To: Tim Gallagher 
Cc: Lea LSF ; CAYUGABIRDS-L 

Subject: Re: [cayugabirds-l] Cooper's Hawk

Hi Tim
Why don’t hawks or even eagles (many here by the lake) kill gray squirrels, of 
which I have many bird-seed-fattened individuals in my big yard? Yard Has tall 
trees & 2 fairly open expanses.

Coopers or Sharpies occasionally kill birds near feeders here.
A few years ago I watched a Bald Eagle drop from a tree on my beach to catch a 
mink that had gone to water’s edge to drink. It flew up into another tree and 
ate it.
Thx
Donna

Donna Scott
Lansing
Sent from my iPhone

On Jan 18, 2021, at 10:47 AM, Tim Gallagher 
mailto:t...@cornell.edu>> wrote:

Hi Lea,

It certainly might have been a Cooper's Hawk that killed your chicken. We also 
have Great Horned Owls and Red-tailed Hawks in and around the village. This 
time of year, a lot of juvenile raptors are starving and desperate to catch 
something to eat. Most of them don't survive until spring. If a desperately 
hungry hawk sees a chicken out in the open, not protected by chicken wire, 
there's a decent chance it will attack it—which is completely understandable.

The Cooper's Hawks I've seen in the village might be local birds. I found a 
Cooper's Hawk nest a few years ago in the swamp behind the school. Maybe they 
nested there again last spring.

Best wishes,

Tim


From: Lea LSF mailto:leaelles...@gmail.com>>
Sent: Sunday, January 17, 2021 6:13 PM
To: Tim Gallagher mailto:t...@cornell.edu>>
Subject: Re: [cayugabirds-l] Cooper's Hawk

Hi Tim,
I live at 22 Main Street in the village, and have observed what my best guess 
told me was a Cooper's Hawk hanging out in a tree over my chicken yard a 
handful of times.  Recently, an animal killed one of my chickens.  I'm guessing 
by the amount of chicken feathers around that it was a hawk who took the 
chicken out, though I don't know if a Cooper's Hawk is big enough.  I am so 
curious about whether this pair that you observed is living nearby. It does 
seem strange to have a food-begging hawk tagging along a parent during winter! 
I'll have to learn the begging call and listen out for it now. I wonder now 
that I'm writing this if hawks even live in one place during the winter, 
whether they even stay in their nests or move around.  I hope you get some 
fruitful responses to your question!
Best Wishes,
Lea

On Sun, Jan 17, 2021 at 12:36 PM Tim Gallagher 
mailto:t...@cornell.edu>> wrote:
I observed something interesting this morning while walking my dog on Main 
Street in Freeville. I heard the food-begging call of a Cooper's Hawk coming 
from the front of a house just past a big hedge. I carefully peeked past the 
hedge and spotted the bird, a juvenile female Cooper's Hawk, sitting on the 
porch rail and facing the house. Perhaps it saw its reflection in the window 
and was calling to it. Anyway, it took off, flying across Main Street and 
disappeared between some houses along the creek.

Last month, on December 6, I saw something similar—but this time it involved an 
adult female Cooper's Hawk and a juvenile male, which was following her around 
through the trees beside some houses and calling like the one this morning. I 
thought at the time that December seemed very late for a young hawk to be 
following its parent around, begging for food. I'd only heard that call before 
in the late spring and summer around Cooper's Hawk nests.

Has anyone else heard Cooper's Hawk food-begging calls in the winter?
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Re: [cayugabirds-l] Cooper's Hawk

[Donna Lee Scott]

Thanks Tim.
I wondered about prey biting raptors’ feet/legs. -donna

Donna Scott
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On Jan 18, 2021, at 11:17 AM, Donna Lee Scott 
mailto:d...@cornell.edu>> wrote:

Must be my fatties hide well when red tailed hawks perch above the yard!
Right now there are 10 SQs  visible😕.

Donna Scott
Lansing
Sent from my iPhone

On Jan 18, 2021, at 11:13 AM, Linda Ann Woodard 
mailto:l...@cornell.edu>> wrote:

Hi Donna,
  A couple of weeks ago I watched a red-tail catch, kill and eat a grey 
squirrel in my yard. It pinned the squirrel and stayed motionless over it for 
at least five minutes until the squirrel  was dead. It took another 30 minutes 
or so for the hawk to eat its fill.  It left the remains on the ground.  Like 
you I have a large yard with lots of tall tress and open areas.
Linda
Cayuga Heights

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Sent: Monday, January 18, 2021 10:56 AM
To: Tim Gallagher mailto:t...@cornell.edu>>
Cc: Lea LSF mailto:leaelles...@gmail.com>>; 
CAYUGABIRDS-L 
mailto:cayugabird...@list.cornell.edu>>
Subject: Re: [cayugabirds-l] Cooper's Hawk

Hi Tim
Why don’t hawks or even eagles (many here by the lake) kill gray squirrels, of 
which I have many bird-seed-fattened individuals in my big yard? Yard Has tall 
trees & 2 fairly open expanses.

Coopers or Sharpies occasionally kill birds near feeders here.
A few years ago I watched a Bald Eagle drop from a tree on my beach to catch a 
mink that had gone to water’s edge to drink. It flew up into another tree and 
ate it.
Thx
Donna
Donna Scott
Lansing
Sent from my iPhone

On Jan 18, 2021, at 10:47 AM, Tim Gallagher 
mailto:t...@cornell.edu>> wrote:
Hi Lea,

It certainly might have been a Cooper's Hawk that killed your chicken. We also 
have Great Horned Owls and Red-tailed Hawks in and around the village. This 
time of year, a lot of juvenile raptors are starving and desperate to catch 
something to eat. Most of them don't survive until spring. If a desperately 
hungry hawk sees a chicken out in the open, not protected by chicken wire, 
there's a decent chance it will attack it—which is completely understandable.

The Cooper's Hawks I've seen in the village might be local birds. I found a 
Cooper's Hawk nest a few years ago in the swamp behind the school. Maybe they 
nested there again last spring.

Best wishes,

Tim


From: Lea LSF mailto:leaelles...@gmail.com>>
Sent: Sunday, January 17, 2021 6:13 PM
To: Tim Gallagher mailto:t...@cornell.edu>>
Subject: Re: [cayugabirds-l] Cooper's Hawk

Hi Tim,
I live at 22 Main Street in the village, and have observed what my best guess 
told me was a Cooper's Hawk hanging out in a tree over my chicken yard a 
handful of times.  Recently, an animal killed one of my chickens.  I'm guessing 
by the amount of chicken feathers around that it was a hawk who took the 
chicken out, though I don't know if a Cooper's Hawk is big enough.  I am so 
curious about whether this pair that you observed is living nearby. It does 
seem strange to have a food-begging hawk tagging along a parent during winter! 
I'll have to learn the begging call and listen out for it now. I wonder now 
that I'm writing this if hawks even live in one place during the winter, 
whether they even stay in their nests or move around.  I hope you get some 
fruitful responses to your question!
Best Wishes,
Lea

On Sun, Jan 17, 2021 at 12:36 PM Tim Gallagher 
mailto:t...@cornell.edu>> wrote:
I observed something interesting this morning while walking my dog on Main 
Street in Freeville. I heard the food-begging call of a Cooper's Hawk coming 
from the front of a house just past a big hedge. I carefully peeked past the 
hedge and spotted the bird, a juvenile female Cooper's Hawk, sitting on the 
porch rail and facing the house. Perhaps it saw its reflection in the window 
and was calling to it. Anyway, it took off, flying across Main Street and 
disappeared between some houses along the creek.

Last month, on December 6, I saw something similar—but this time it involved an 
adult female Cooper's Hawk and a juvenile male, which was following her around 
through the trees beside some houses and calling like the one this morning. I 
thought at the time that December seemed very late for a young hawk to be 
following its parent around, begging for food. I'd only heard that call before 
in the late spring and summer around Cooper's Hawk nests.

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Re: [cayugabirds-l] Cooper's Hawk

[Terry Mingle]

We have Cooper’s Hawks as well - at my house, and at my sister Richanna’s 
house, and I’ve only ever seen them eat a squirrel once, and it was the young 
hawks (that just fledged) that killed it.

I always wonder why they don’t eat squirrel more often.  I wish they would. I 
have about 10 fat squirrels here in my yard, raiding my feeders every day!

—Terry

==

> On Jan 18, 2021 , at 11:16 AM, Donna Lee Scott  wrote:
> 
> Must be my fatties hide well when red tailed hawks perch above the yard!
> Right now there are 10 SQs  visible😕. 
> 
> Donna Scott
> Lansing
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Re: [cayugabirds-l] Cooper's Hawk

[Terry Mingle]

Hmm.  I need to get some Red-Tailed Hawks.   ;-)

—Terry

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> On Jan 18, 2021 , at 11:16 AM, Tim Gallagher  wrote:
> 
> Hi Donna,
> 
> Gray squirrels are actually a fairly common prey item for local Red-tailed 
> Hawks. I even saw a red-tail try to catch one in the field behind my house. 
> They can give a nasty bite to a hawk. I've trapped numerous red-tails over 
> the years that have scars on their feet from squirrel bites.
> 
> Tim


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Re: [cayugabirds-l] Cooper's Hawk

[Theresa Joseph]

Maybe, squirrels aren't as easy to kill as birds?

On Mon, Jan 18, 2021 at 11:26 AM Terry Mingle  wrote:

> We have Cooper’s Hawks as well - at my house, and at my sister Richanna’s
> house, and I’ve only ever seen them eat a squirrel once, and it was the
> young hawks (that just fledged) that killed it.
>
> I always wonder why they don’t eat squirrel more often.  I wish they
> would. I have about 10 fat squirrels here in my yard, raiding my feeders
> every day!
>
> —Terry
>
> ==
>
> On Jan 18, 2021 , at 11:16 AM, Donna Lee Scott  wrote:
>
> Must be my fatties hide well when red tailed hawks perch above the yard!
> Right now there are 10 SQs  visible😕.
>
> Donna Scott
> Lansing
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Re: [cayugabirds-l] Cooper's Hawk

[Karen]

I recall seeing a Great-hored Owl flying down a small river with a grey 
squirrel in its talons. The squirrel swayed like a pendulum with each stroke of 
the owl's wings. The owl stayed along the creek and for two or three turns we 
would catch up and scare it off down stream. It was a season when the owl would 
be feeding fledglings.John


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From: Donna Lee Scott 
To: Tim Gallagher 
Cc: Lea LSF ; CAYUGABIRDS-L 

Sent: Mon, Jan 18, 2021 10:55 am
Subject: Re: [cayugabirds-l] Cooper's Hawk

Hi TimWhy don’t hawks or even eagles (many here by the lake) kill gray 
squirrels, of which I have many bird-seed-fattened individuals in my big yard? 
Yard Has tall trees & 2 fairly open expanses. 
Coopers or Sharpies occasionally kill birds near feeders here. A few years ago 
I watched a Bald Eagle drop from a tree on my beach to catch a mink that had 
gone to water’s edge to drink. It flew up into another tree and ate it. ThxDonna

Donna ScottLansingSent from my iPhone
On Jan 18, 2021, at 10:47 AM, Tim Gallagher  wrote:


Hi Lea,
It certainly might have been a Cooper's Hawk that killed your chicken. We also 
have Great Horned Owls and Red-tailed Hawks in and around the village. This 
time of year, a lot of juvenile raptors are starving and desperate to catch 
something to eat. Most of them don't survive until spring. If a desperately 
hungry hawk sees a chicken out in the open, not protected by chicken wire, 
there's a decent chance it will attack it—which is completely understandable.
The Cooper's Hawks I've seen in the village might be local birds. I found a 
Cooper's Hawk nest a few years ago in the swamp behind the school. Maybe they 
nested there again last spring.
Best wishes,
Tim
From: Lea LSF 
Sent: Sunday, January 17, 2021 6:13 PM
To: Tim Gallagher 
Subject: Re: [cayugabirds-l] Cooper's Hawk Hi Tim,I live at 22 Main Street in 
the village, and have observed what my best guess told me was a Cooper's Hawk 
hanging out in a tree over my chicken yard a handful of times.  Recently, an 
animal killed one of my chickens.  I'm guessing by the amount of chicken 
feathers around that it was a hawk who took the chicken out, though I don't 
know if a Cooper's Hawk is big enough.  I am so curious about whether this pair 
that you observed is living nearby. It does seem strange to have a food-begging 
hawk tagging along a parent during winter! I'll have to learn the begging call 
and listen out for it now. I wonder now that I'm writing this if hawks even 
live in one place during the winter, whether they even stay in their nests or 
move around.  I hope you get some fruitful responses to your question!
Best Wishes,Lea

On Sun, Jan 17, 2021 at 12:36 PM Tim Gallagher  wrote:

I observed something interesting this morning while walking my dog on Main 
Street in Freeville. I heard the food-begging call of a Cooper's Hawk coming 
from the front of a house just past a big hedge. I carefully peeked past the 
hedge and spotted the bird, a juvenile female Cooper's Hawk, sitting on the 
porch rail and facing the house. Perhaps it saw its reflection in the window 
and was calling to it. Anyway, it took off, flying across Main Street and 
disappeared between some houses along the creek. 
Last month, on December 6, I saw something similar—but this time it involved an 
adult female Cooper's Hawk and a juvenile male, which was following her around 
through the trees beside some houses and calling like the one this morning. I 
thought at the time that December seemed very late for a young hawk to be 
following its parent around, begging for food. I'd only heard that call before 
in the late spring and summer around Cooper's Hawk nests. 
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Re: [cayugabirds-l] Cooper's Hawk

[Norm Trigoboff]

Several days ago a coopers hawk stood (in a couple of inches of flowing water) 
in the creek along Lake Ave. in Ithaca for maybe 15 minutes. A handful of 
people stopped to gawk and take photos. I walked across a nearby bridge and 
approached from the other side. It flew away well enough, but it looked like 
some of its tail feathers were mussed up.








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wrote: 





  

I observed something interesting this morning while walking my dog on Main 
Street in Freeville. I heard the food-begging call of a Cooper's Hawk coming 
from the front of a house just past a big hedge. I carefully peeked past the 
hedge and spotted the bird, a juvenile female Cooper's Hawk, sitting on the 
porch rail and facing the house. Perhaps it saw its reflection in the window 
and was calling to it. Anyway, it took off, flying across Main Street and 
disappeared between some houses along the creek. 




Last month, on December 6, I saw something similar—but this time it involved an 
adult female Cooper's Hawk and a juvenile male, which was following her around 
through the trees beside some houses and calling like the one this morning. I 
thought at the time that December seemed very late for a young hawk to be 
following its parent around, begging for food. I'd only heard that call before 
in the late spring and summer around Cooper's Hawk nests. 




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[cayugabirds-l] Cooper's Hawk meal

[Donna Scott]

My resident Cooper's Hawk just nailed one of my two White Breasted Nuthatches, 
which made me sad for the pair.
A squirrel soon after ran up a branch and approached the hawk, who was busy 
plucking feathers from the Nuthatch body, so the hawk flew off across the road.

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Re: [cayugabirds-l] Cooper's Hawk

[Diana]

I feel your pain. We have had virtually no birds for about three weeks. This 
morning there was a lone Song Sparrow looking quite miserable. I suspected the 
Coopers that has been seen a few times this winter. Sure enough, when we pulled 
in the driveway after a trip to Montezuma, the Cooper was sitting on a tree 
outside our normal viewing area from the house.

Montezuma and around was not too eventful with the high winds. We did see three 
Rough-legged Hawks on the corner of Bixby and Savannah Springs Rd. one was very 
dark. The others were in flight so I could not make out the coloring as well. 

Diana Whiting

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On Feb 17, 2013, at 12:01 PM, Carol Keeler  wrote:

> My Cooper's Hawk has made counting birds for the Backyard Bird Count 
> impossible.  It's been here each day, so no birds are coming to the feeders.  
> Yesterday it took a female Cardinal.  This morning it sat in the weeping pine 
> where the feeders are located from at least 7:15 to 8:30. I was amazed at how 
> long it stayed. I don't know how much longer it stayed since I left to get 
> groceries.  One photographer from out west, Ron Dudley, has said that in very 
> cold weather many raptors are "sticky".   They tend to stay put and don't 
> flush easily.  My Cooper's was sticky this morning.  I looked out just a 
> while ago and it was back again, but didn't stay long.  I assume it has had 
> quite a bit of success hunting in my yard since it's around so often.
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[cayugabirds-l] Cooper's hawk in Brooktondale

[Susan Fast]

Hi, Birders,

 

Steve had posted that we had a large Cooper's Hawk in our backyard, 1 mile
east of Brooktondale.  A friend of ours had left us a chunk of deer carcass,
set on top of the brush pile.  Crows worked it over for a couple of days,
eating, and hiding suet over in the field across the road.  And then the
hawk took over.  Yesterday Steve watched her for over 3 hours (!) as she
gorged on suet and meat, till her crop stuck way out and she was puffed out
like a chicken!  He noted when she cleaned her beak, and how she cleaned her
talons, periodically.  After feeding, she slipped back into the hemlocks
behind the house.

This morning, she returned, feeling more comfortable than yesterday.  She
sunned herself, and at one point lay down for a little rest, on the carcass.
The feeder birds and squirrels went about their feeding as usual.

About 1:00 PM, the resident Sharp-shinned Hawk shot through the yard.  The
little birds disappeared, and the CH sat straight up.  In a few minutes a
male N. Harrier floated low over the field, right over where the crows have
been caching.  I wondered whether the NH would eat suet as the CH has been
doing.  Meanwhile, the crows were flying about not happily. 

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[cayugabirds-l] Cooper's Hawk and commotion

[Meena Madhav Haribal]

Hi all,

Just a few minutes ago there was lot of commotion in my yard. Every bird in the 
area seem to be at my home. Several Robins, Black-capped Chickadees,  
Nuthatches, Blue Jays and House Wrens, were going nuts and everyone seemed to 
be looking in the spruces.  After 10 minutes I decided to go and investigate 
thinking there was an owl as I had heard short bar of Eastern Screech Owl call 
yesterday around 2.30 am or a cat.



On investigating I found a Cooper's Hawk taken a refuge in the trees and 
probably was planning to spend the night there. I had crashed into undergrowth 
that in turn had alerted the Cooper's and it moved to another branch and 
watched me for sometime. Then it decided to fly away to my neighbor's yard.  I 
felt sorry for dashing around and chasing away a bird from its chosen roost :-(

Chickadees continued being nuts for another five minutes and robins became 
silent soon afterwards.

A little earlier, I had seen a fledgling of Red-eyed Vireo and fledglings of 
two House wrens accompanied by their parents.



In the morning I had gone in search of Yellow-bellied sapsuckers to a private 
wood lots in Madison County, where we came upon  several groups of 
migrants/residents.



First group consisted of fledglings of Wood Thrush, Magnolia Warblers and 
Ovenbirds, including chickadees. Second group consisted of Red-eyed Vireo 
fledglings, Baltimore Oriole and more Magnolias. I also saw what to me looked 
like a Prothonotary Warbler, with yellow head and blue-grey plumage, but just 
had several glimpses and seemed chunkier than Blue-winged warbler.

Third group consisted of more Magnolias, Redstarts and Canada Warblers along 
with the other residents, but as luck turns out I did not have any sightings of 
sapsuckers but lots of evidences of them being around.



Cheers

Meena



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[cayugabirds-l] (Cooper's?) Hawk vs Blue Jay

[Marie P Read]

After an uneventful walk on Mt Pleasant this morning (where the highlight
was just a single Horned Lark), I rounded a bend to hear the sudden
distress screams of a Blue Jay from near the edge of the cornfield across
from my house on Mineah Road. I couldn’t locate the jay among the downed
cornstalks and mud lumps at first, but suddenly a hawk flew up dragging
the fluttering jay in its talons. Weighed down by its prey, it landed on
the ground, a bit further toward the woods. I watched transfixed while
there unfolded a terrible struggle, with lots of screaming from the jay
and its flock mates, and flapping of wings by both victim and attacker.
The hawk was most likely a Cooper's, but possibly a female Sharp-shinned.
I was too far away to tell…although it looked like the hawk wasn’t much
bigger than the jay itself.

Other jays started mobbing the hawk, and the captured jay put up a valiant
fight for several minutes, but its screams became weaker and fewer, as the
hawk mantled it, bending down over and over again to peck and toss clumps
of feathers into the air. Finally, there was silence, the other jays had
left, and the hawk flew again a short distance toward the shrubbery.
Finally I watched it drag its prey, still on the ground, into some bushes
presumably for protection, and out of sight.

An experience both thrilling and deeply disturbing.

Marie






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[cayugabirds-l] Cooper's hawk on Ithaca Commons

[Lindsay Goodloe]

At 2 PM, my wife and I started to leave the Ithaca Commons via the alley 
located next to the Home Dairy building when an accipiter flew towards us 
through the alley and landed on the Home Dairy sign that arches across the 
alley entrance. It perched for several minutes, fluffed up against the bitter 
cold, but quite content to be observed by us and a few other folks from very 
close range (about 10 feet). Eventually it flew back down the alley, landing 
for a few moments on the ground in the passage way, before veering off to the 
left (east) at the far end. Recalling that a sharpie had been seen in this area 
during at least one recent winter and thinking that it looked pretty small for 
a Cooper's hawk, I at first thought that it was a large female of the former 
species. But after studying it for awhile, we concluded that, on the basis of 
the sharp contrast between the dark cap and the much paler nape of the neck, it 
was almost certainly a small male COOPER'S HAWK. If anyone else has observed a 
small accipiter in that area recently and come to a different conclusion, feel 
free to chime in. In any case, it was a real treat to see the bird so close for 
so long-certainly our closest look ever at an accipiter.

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[cayugabirds-l] Cooper's Hawk at feeders for CBC

[Nari Mistry]

As we were rounding off our CBCount at our feeders after counting at E 
Hill Rec Way and Dodge Rd., an adult Cooper's Hawk swooped up to a perch 
in the box-elder, directly above our line of feeders and fiercely eyed 
the feeders below, sweeping her head rapidly back and forth many times. 
We were quite awed by the fierce red eyes so close above us -- 
fortunately all the birds had fled a few moments earlier.

The bird count today was quite sparse in the 20F weather. None of the 
usual  Carolina wrens, Red-br nuthatches, A. Tree Sparrows. At our 
feeders yesterday we did have 3 Am Tree Sparrows  and a pair of Red-br 
Nuthatches.

Nari & Gin Mistry,
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[cayugabirds-l] Cooper's Hawk takes Red-bellied Woodpecker

[Geo Kloppel]

Looking out the window just now in response to scream calls out in the yard, I 
was treated to the stirring sight of a Cooper's Hawk on the ground, wings and 
tail spread to make a sort of cage, and with a bird in its talons. The 
screaming lasted less than a minute, and then the immature Coop was able to 
relax a bit, and soon folded its wings. It continued plucking breast feathers 
from the prey item for two or three minutes more, then it flew off with the 
kill, which I saw was a Red-bellied Woodpecker. I'm sorry for the woodpecker, 
but happy to see that this Cooper's Hawk will not be starving, as I imagine 
many of the youngsters do.

Feeders are deserted now! I wonder how long this will last?

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Re:[cayugabirds-l] Cooper's Hawk takes Red-bellied Woodpecker

[Geo Kloppel]

...and the answer is: after just half an hour, a bunch of Mourning Doves are 
already walking around on the kill-site, and smaller feeder birds are grabbing 
sunflower seeds from the feeder and flitting to the adjacent spruce to shell 
them.

-Geo

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[cayugabirds-l] Cooper's Hawk having probably red squirrel for lunch in my yard

[Meena Haribal]

As I am typing this there is Cooper's hawk having a meal, I would not call it 
enjoying as he is very alert, lots of people and cars passing by on Honness 
Lane.

I saw him half an hour ago under the Norway Spruces. First when I saw him, I 
thought it was a bunny as I saw one yesterday morning eating greens in my yard. 
But he looked different then it dawned on me that it was a hawk. I got my 
binoculars and watched him for quite some time. Now I am recording him on the 
video through my bedroom window glass. Not so great. Don't dare to open window 
as he might fly away. First  7 minutes he just sat and looked left and right. 
Then started tearing his meal. Actually, by the time I saw the meal it was 
barely visible except for some red meat and a stomach, but occasionally saw the 
tail, looked like a red squirrel. I am letting the digital media roll and see 
if I can get some unusual shots.  He is visible from my home-office window too. 
Now suddenly he is in full sun! More alert!



If I get anything good I will post it!



This is first time I am watching a hawk eating meal in my yard and that to has 
caught a natural meal!



Cheers

Meena



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