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
: [cayugabirds-l] Cooper's Hawk
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.
Coopers or Sharpies occasionally kill birds near feeders here.
A few years
ey
nested there again last spring.
Best wishes,
Tim
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Sent: Sunday, January 17, 2021 6:13 PM
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Subject: Re: [cayugabirds-l] Cooper's Hawk
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
I observed something interesting this morning while walking my dog on Main
Street in Freeville. I heard the food-begging call of a Cooper's Hawk coming
from the front of a house just past a big hedge. I carefully peeked past the
hedge and spotted the bird, a juvenile female Cooper's Hawk,
On my evening jog I came upon a Cooper's Hawk in the middle of Terrace
View Drive. I initially felt bad when I flushed it carrying a prey to
a nearby tree, but soon a car came by which would no doubt have
flushed it anyways. Must have been just freshly caught. Prey looked
dark and biggish, likely
...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
Sent from my iPhone
> On Jan 8, 2017, at 1:03
Looking out the window just now in response to scream calls out in the yard, I
was treated to the stirring sight of a Cooper's Hawk on the ground, wings and
tail spread to make a sort of cage, and with a bird in its talons. The
screaming lasted less than a minute, and then the immature Coop was
I enjoyed really nice views of two COOPER'S HAWKS this afternoon over the
pond behind Hospicare (South Hill, Town of Ithaca). One hawk was chasing
the other and giving the "kek kek kek" alarm call. I don't often hear
these birds vocalize, so it was quite a thrill!
Annette
-- from my phone
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As we were rounding off our CBCount at our feeders after counting at E
Hill Rec Way and Dodge Rd., an adult Cooper's Hawk swooped up to a perch
in the box-elder, directly above our line of feeders and fiercely eyed
the feeders below, sweeping her head rapidly back and forth many times.
We were
Last Thurs. in my Mulberry tree above the feeders sat a
gorgeous_Cooper's hawk._
Yesterday in the rain a _Sharpie_ caught what appeared to be a blue jay
(light was too poor to see for sure) proceeded to eat it, tearing off
long strips of flesh after slowly plucking off the downy feathers
Hi all,
Just a few minutes ago there was lot of commotion in my yard. Every bird in the
area seem to be at my home. Several Robins, Black-capped Chickadees,
Nuthatches, Blue Jays and House Wrens, were going nuts and everyone seemed to
be looking in the spruces. After 10 minutes I decided to
Today when I got back home from work, I entered from the backyard. From among
the shrubbery of lilacs and some other plants flew out a Copper's Hawk, which
seemed to have been having a quiet meal and got disturbed by my arrival, landed
on a Maple branch quite in open just a few feet from me. I
At 2 PM, my wife and I started to leave the Ithaca Commons via the alley
located next to the Home Dairy building when an accipiter flew towards us
through the alley and landed on the Home Dairy sign that arches across the
alley entrance. It perched for several minutes, fluffed up against the
As I am typing this there is Cooper's hawk having a meal, I would not call it
enjoying as he is very alert, lots of people and cars passing by on Honness
Lane.
I saw him half an hour ago under the Norway Spruces. First when I saw him, I
thought it was a bunny as I saw one yesterday morning
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
My resident Cooper's Hawk just nailed one of my two White Breasted Nuthatches,
which made me sad for the pair.
A squirrel soon after ran up a branch and approached the hawk, who was busy
plucking feathers from the Nuthatch body, so the hawk flew off across the road.
Donna L. Scott
535 Lansing
About noon today, I heard a rush of wings at the feeders behind the house,
then a e-e-ew, e-e-ew. A quick look revealed a Cooper's Hawk perched on
the back of a patio chair. Naturally, I had just put my camera away, and by
the time I got it out again, the hawk was gone. I checked the feeders
About 11:40 this a.m., an adult Cooper's Hawk flew into our back yard and
perched on the lower rail of our fence. Three crows (our resident family,
less one) were in attendance without the showy dramatics they go thru with
Red-Tails. The crows sort of stalked around and got closer and closer to
We had an interesting evening last night when our daughter Heather called to
tell us that she had a hawk that was acting strangely in her yard. It had been
sitting on a car unconcerned by barking dogs, children, or curious people
walking by. She wondered if it was in need of help. I called a
Hi, Birders,
Steve had posted that we had a large Cooper's Hawk in our backyard, 1 mile
east of Brooktondale. A friend of ours had left us a chunk of deer carcass,
set on top of the brush pile. Crows worked it over for a couple of days,
eating, and hiding suet over in the field across the
Yesterday about 7am, returning to the house with the dog, as I turned the
corner to the open garage door, a Cooper's Hawk flew out, I think from a perch
(that is, he wasn't just flying in and then back out). He/she landed on an
ornamental tree right in front of the house briefly, turned and
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