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

2017-01-08 Thread 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 Sent from my iPhone > On Jan 8, 2017, at 1:03

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

2017-01-08 Thread 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