On Tue, Jan 10, 2023 at 11:00 PM MOU-NET automatic digest system < lists...@lists.umn.edu> wrote:
> There is 1 message totaling 43 lines in this issue. > > Topics of the day: > > 1. Possible Goshawk Ramsey County Hamline-Midway neighborhood > > ---- > General information and guidelines for posting: > https://moumn.org/listservice.html > Archives: http://lists.umn.edu/archives/mou-net.html > > During the pandemic, the MOU encourages you to stay safe, practice social > distancing, and continue to bird responsibly. > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Date: Tue, 10 Jan 2023 21:15:17 +0000 > From: Simon Emms <skemms2...@outlook.com> > Subject: Possible Goshawk Ramsey County Hamline-Midway neighborhood > > This morning a very large juvenile accipiter briefly visited a tree next > to my garden birdfeeder near the intersection of Aldine and Blair. I saw it > with the naked eye through a window from about 15 feet away, but it flew > off before I could grab a camera or binoculars. I’m tilting (cautiously) > towards Goshawk rather than Cooper’s based on the following features: > > 1. Size and bulk. It looked very large – rather like a Red-shouldered > Hawk but with a longer tail. It was much larger than a very brave gray > squirrel that was mobbing it from a few feet away, and although I didn’t > see them simultaneously, I would say it was easily more than twice the size > of a Blue Jay or a Red-bellied Woodpecker and larger than an American Crow. > On the other hand, it may have looked larger than it was simply because of > how close I was to it. > 2. Color and patterning. I saw it from the side-rear, and it seemed to > have a greyish mid-brown tone, rather than a dark brown one, and had lots > of coarse white spotting on its back and coverts. The left flank looked > near-white, and the dark spotting seemed coarse, but the view wasn’t great. > I had a good look at its head, and didn’t see an obvious white supercilium, > but it was perched somewhat above my eye level. > > I realize that none of this is definitive, and that in an urban > neighborhood Cooper's is far more likely, but I thought I’d put the > information out for anyone who lives and birds in the neighborhood or > surroundings (Como Park is quite close). If it was a Goshawk, it’s possible > that it’s the same bird that was seen at Vadnais and Sucker Lakes in late > 2022. > > Simon Emms > > ---- > General information and guidelines for posting: > https://moumn.org/listservice.html > Archives: http://lists.umn.edu/archives/mou-net.html > > During the pandemic, the MOU encourages you to stay safe, practice social > distancing, and continue to bird responsibly. > > ------------------------------ > > End of MOU-NET Digest - 9 Jan 2023 to 10 Jan 2023 (#2023-8) > *********************************************************** > ---- General information and guidelines for posting: https://moumn.org/listservice.html Archives: http://lists.umn.edu/archives/mou-net.html During the pandemic, the MOU encourages you to stay safe, practice social distancing, and continue to bird responsibly.
