Several days ago a coopers hawk stood (in a couple of inches of flowing water)
in the creek along Lake Ave. in Ithaca for maybe 15 minutes. A handful of
people stopped to gawk and take photos. I walked across a nearby bridge and
approached from the other side. It flew away well enough, but it
the owl would
be feeding fledglings.John
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From: Donna Lee Scott
To: Tim Gallagher
Cc: Lea LSF ; CAYUGABIRDS-L
Sent: Mon, Jan 18, 2021 10:55 am
Subject: Re: [cayugabirds-l] Cooper's Hawk
Hi TimWhy don’t hawks or even eagles (many here by the lake) kill gray
Maybe, squirrels aren't as easy to kill as birds?
On Mon, Jan 18, 2021 at 11:26 AM Terry Mingle wrote:
> We have Cooper’s Hawks as well - at my house, and at my sister Richanna’s
> house, and I’ve only ever seen them eat a squirrel once, and it was the
> young hawks (that just fledged) that
Hmm. I need to get some Red-Tailed Hawks. ;-)
—Terry
==
> On Jan 18, 2021 , at 11:16 AM, Tim Gallagher wrote:
>
> Hi Donna,
>
> Gray squirrels are actually a fairly common prey item for local Red-tailed
> Hawks. I even saw a red-tail try to catch
We have Cooper’s Hawks as well - at my house, and at my sister Richanna’s
house, and I’ve only ever seen them eat a squirrel once, and it was the young
hawks (that just fledged) that killed it.
I always wonder why they don’t eat squirrel more often. I wish they would. I
have about 10 fat
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Hi Tim
Why don’t hawks or even eagles (many here by the lake) kill gray squirrels, of
which I have many bird-seed-fattened individuals in my big yard? Yard Has tall
trees & 2 fairly open expanses.
Co
bites.
Tim
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Hi Tim
Why don’t hawks or even eagles (many here by the lake) kill gray squirrels, of
which I have
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Hi Tim
Why don’t hawks or even eagles (many here by the lake) kill gray squirrels, of
which I have many bird
the school. Maybe they
nested there again last spring.
Best wishes,
Tim
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Sent: Sunday, January 17, 2021 6:13 PM
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Hi Tim,
I
ey
nested there again last spring.
Best wishes,
Tim
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Hi Tim,
I live at 22 Main
in the swamp behind the school. Maybe they
nested there again last spring.
Best wishes,
Tim
From: Lea LSF
Sent: Sunday, January 17, 2021 6:13 PM
To: Tim Gallagher
Subject: Re: [cayugabirds-l] Cooper's Hawk
Hi Tim,
I live at 22 Main Street in the village, and have
...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
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> On Jan 8, 2017, at 1:03
I feel your pain. We have had virtually no birds for about three weeks. This
morning there was a lone Song Sparrow looking quite miserable. I suspected the
Coopers that has been seen a few times this winter. Sure enough, when we pulled
in the driveway after a trip to Montezuma, the Cooper was
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