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Re: Cooper's Hawk in My Suburban Yard
- To: "Carolinabirds List" <carolinabirds@duke.edu>
- Subject: Re: Cooper's Hawk in My Suburban Yard
- From: "Sandy Cash" <scash@mindspring.com>
- Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2000 19:50:51 -0500
- References: <c7.172045b.25c65f46@aol.com>
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I have been kinda lucky in this regard - despite the utter lack of any
winter birds (the scads of Juncos and line Fox Sparrow notwithstanding),
I've managed to have a Sharpie and a possible Cooper's make flybys in a
the last couple of weeks. Now if I could only lure even one Purple
Finch or Siskin...<sigh>
-Sandy
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Sandy Cash
Durham, NC (recently moved)
scash@mindspring.com
----- Original Message -----
From: <Jchat99@aol.com>
To: <Carolinabirds@acpub.duke.edu>
Sent: Sunday, January 30, 2000 10:45 PM
Subject: 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