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Cooper's hawk hunting on ground



>An adult Cooper's hawk came crashing out of the privet/honeysuckle tangle,
>on foot,  to jump up and land on the closeline pole.  It apparently was
>walking around inside the brush looking for  a white-throated sparrow it
>chased into the tangled mass (a sparrow stormed out of the opposite side).
>If they can't catch you on the wing, they'll walk you down.
>...
>
>Anyone else observe this behavior or like behavior in other hawks.
>Swainson's Hawk in a dry Texas resaca, walking behind a grass cutting
>tractor, picking off grasshoppers, might be an example?

I've seen a Cooper's walk on the ground across a bit of lawn and 
under a bush, then jump/fly up through it, trying to get at a 
mockingbird perched on top. It had an impressive strutting walk, and 
seemed very at home on the ground. This was on the south side of 
Durham, NC.
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Patrick Coin
Durham, NC
patrick@coinconsult.net