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Birding Reports => Backyard Birding => Topic started by: JimmyM on October 27, 2010, 11:24:58 PM

Title: Foiled Cooper's hawk
Post by: JimmyM on October 27, 2010, 11:24:58 PM

This afternoon I heard a terrific racket coming from a dense bush where birds stage to visit my feeders. When I approached, a cooper's hawk took off from the exterior of the bush where it was probably waiting for one of the many sparrows safely out of reach in the bush interior - to panic and take off.
 The hawk has on occassion perched on the roof of the feeder.
Having goldfinches, house finches, bluejays ( since I've added a little cracked corn/shelled peanuts), juncos, woodpeckers, nuthatches, chickadees  and the usual hoards of sparrows visit.
Jim

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Post by: Axeman on October 28, 2010, 07:54:51 PM

A couple of years ago, I watched a male and female wren as they decked out their nest in one of my nest boxes...I was brushig my teeth looking out the window...went to go rinse and when I came back...I saw a sharpie or coopers not sure which, on the ground in the junipers...he had the female...the poor male never did attract another female.