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Cooper's Hawk in My Suburban Yard



About 2 p.m. Sunday afternoon I heard a bang, outside in my backyard while 
sitting in my living room.  I thought a limb had broken, however in looking 
out the window I saw my lamp post feeder shaking.  Beside it on the ground 
was a large accipiter, a beautiful Cooper's Hawk, looking sort of stunned.  I 
surmised he had gone after a bird and somehow crashed into the feeder.  He 
obviously had missed.  About a minute later he took off flying through my 
pine trees.  A nice new yard bird!  In fact, it is only the second accipiter 
I have seen in five years in my neighborhood ( I did see a Sharpie several 
years back).  

John Frederick
Durham, NC
Jchat99@aol.com