Re: [cayugabirds-l] Cooper's Hawk

[Norm Trigoboff]

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 looked like 
some of its tail feathers were mussed up.








On Sunday, January 17, 2021, 12:36:31 PM EST, Tim Gallagher  
wrote: 





  

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, sitting on the 
porch rail and facing the house. Perhaps it saw its reflection in the window 
and was calling to it. Anyway, it took off, flying across Main Street and 
disappeared between some houses along the creek. 




Last month, on December 6, I saw something similar—but this time it involved an 
adult female Cooper's Hawk and a juvenile male, which was following her around 
through the trees beside some houses and calling like the one this morning. I 
thought at the time that December seemed very late for a young hawk to be 
following its parent around, begging for food. I'd only heard that call before 
in the late spring and summer around Cooper's Hawk nests. 




Has anyone else heard Cooper's Hawk food-begging calls in the winter?

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Re: [cayugabirds-l] Cooper's Hawk

[Karen]

I recall seeing a Great-hored Owl flying down a small river with a grey 
squirrel in its talons. The squirrel swayed like a pendulum with each stroke of 
the owl's wings. The owl stayed along the creek and for two or three turns we 
would catch up and scare it off down stream. It was a season when the owl would 
be feeding fledglings.John


-Original Message-
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 
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 ago 
I watched a Bald Eagle drop from a tree on my beach to catch a mink that had 
gone to water’s edge to drink. It flew up into another tree and ate it. ThxDonna

Donna ScottLansingSent from my iPhone
On Jan 18, 2021, at 10:47 AM, Tim Gallagher  wrote:


Hi Lea,
It certainly might have been a Cooper's Hawk that killed your chicken. We also 
have Great Horned Owls and Red-tailed Hawks in and around the village. This 
time of year, a lot of juvenile raptors are starving and desperate to catch 
something to eat. Most of them don't survive until spring. If a desperately 
hungry hawk sees a chicken out in the open, not protected by chicken wire, 
there's a decent chance it will attack it—which is completely understandable.
The Cooper's Hawks I've seen in the village might be local birds. I found a 
Cooper's Hawk nest a few years ago 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 observed what my best guess told me was a Cooper's Hawk 
hanging out in a tree over my chicken yard a handful of times.  Recently, an 
animal killed one of my chickens.  I'm guessing by the amount of chicken 
feathers around that it was a hawk who took the chicken out, though I don't 
know if a Cooper's Hawk is big enough.  I am so curious about whether this pair 
that you observed is living nearby. It does seem strange to have a food-begging 
hawk tagging along a parent during winter! I'll have to learn the begging call 
and listen out for it now. I wonder now that I'm writing this if hawks even 
live in one place during the winter, whether they even stay in their nests or 
move around.  I hope you get some fruitful responses to your question!
Best Wishes,Lea

On Sun, Jan 17, 2021 at 12:36 PM Tim Gallagher  wrote:

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, sitting on the 
porch rail and facing the house. Perhaps it saw its reflection in the window 
and was calling to it. Anyway, it took off, flying across Main Street and 
disappeared between some houses along the creek. 
Last month, on December 6, I saw something similar—but this time it involved an 
adult female Cooper's Hawk and a juvenile male, which was following her around 
through the trees beside some houses and calling like the one this morning. I 
thought at the time that December seemed very late for a young hawk to be 
following its parent around, begging for food. I'd only heard that call before 
in the late spring and summer around Cooper's Hawk nests. 
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Re: [cayugabirds-l] Cooper's Hawk

[Theresa Joseph]

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 killed it.
>
> I always wonder why they don’t eat squirrel more often.  I wish they
> would. I have about 10 fat squirrels here in my yard, raiding my feeders
> every day!
>
> —Terry
>
> ==
>
> On Jan 18, 2021 , at 11:16 AM, Donna Lee Scott  wrote:
>
> Must be my fatties hide well when red tailed hawks perch above the yard!
> Right now there are 10 SQs  visible.
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Re: [cayugabirds-l] Cooper's Hawk

[Terry Mingle]

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 one in the field behind my house. 
> They can give a nasty bite to a hawk. I've trapped numerous red-tails over 
> the years that have scars on their feet from squirrel bites.
> 
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Re: [cayugabirds-l] Cooper's Hawk

[Terry Mingle]

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 squirrels here in my yard, raiding my feeders every day!

—Terry

==

> On Jan 18, 2021 , at 11:16 AM, Donna Lee Scott  wrote:
> 
> Must be my fatties hide well when red tailed hawks perch above the yard!
> Right now there are 10 SQs  visible. 
> 
> Donna Scott
> Lansing
> Sent from my iPhone
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Re: [cayugabirds-l] Cooper's Hawk

[Donna Lee Scott]

Thanks Tim.
I wondered about prey biting raptors’ feet/legs. -donna

Donna Scott
Lansing
Sent from my iPhone

On Jan 18, 2021, at 11:17 AM, Donna Lee Scott 
mailto:d...@cornell.edu>> wrote:

Must be my fatties hide well when red tailed hawks perch above the yard!
Right now there are 10 SQs  visible.

Donna Scott
Lansing
Sent from my iPhone

On Jan 18, 2021, at 11:13 AM, Linda Ann Woodard 
mailto:l...@cornell.edu>> wrote:

Hi Donna,
  A couple of weeks ago I watched a red-tail catch, kill and eat a grey 
squirrel in my yard. It pinned the squirrel and stayed motionless over it for 
at least five minutes until the squirrel  was dead. It took another 30 minutes 
or so for the hawk to eat its fill.  It left the remains on the ground.  Like 
you I have a large yard with lots of tall tress and open areas.
Linda
Cayuga Heights

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 On Behalf Of Donna Lee Scott
Sent: Monday, January 18, 2021 10:56 AM
To: Tim Gallagher mailto:t...@cornell.edu>>
Cc: Lea LSF mailto:leaelles...@gmail.com>>; 
CAYUGABIRDS-L 
mailto:cayugabird...@list.cornell.edu>>
Subject: Re: [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 ago I watched a Bald Eagle drop from a tree on my beach to catch a 
mink that had gone to water’s edge to drink. It flew up into another tree and 
ate it.
Thx
Donna
Donna Scott
Lansing
Sent from my iPhone

On Jan 18, 2021, at 10:47 AM, Tim Gallagher 
mailto:t...@cornell.edu>> wrote:
Hi Lea,

It certainly might have been a Cooper's Hawk that killed your chicken. We also 
have Great Horned Owls and Red-tailed Hawks in and around the village. This 
time of year, a lot of juvenile raptors are starving and desperate to catch 
something to eat. Most of them don't survive until spring. If a desperately 
hungry hawk sees a chicken out in the open, not protected by chicken wire, 
there's a decent chance it will attack it—which is completely understandable.

The Cooper's Hawks I've seen in the village might be local birds. I found a 
Cooper's Hawk nest a few years ago in the swamp behind the school. Maybe they 
nested there again last spring.

Best wishes,

Tim


From: Lea LSF mailto:leaelles...@gmail.com>>
Sent: Sunday, January 17, 2021 6:13 PM
To: Tim Gallagher mailto:t...@cornell.edu>>
Subject: Re: [cayugabirds-l] Cooper's Hawk

Hi Tim,
I live at 22 Main Street in the village, and have observed what my best guess 
told me was a Cooper's Hawk hanging out in a tree over my chicken yard a 
handful of times.  Recently, an animal killed one of my chickens.  I'm guessing 
by the amount of chicken feathers around that it was a hawk who took the 
chicken out, though I don't know if a Cooper's Hawk is big enough.  I am so 
curious about whether this pair that you observed is living nearby. It does 
seem strange to have a food-begging hawk tagging along a parent during winter! 
I'll have to learn the begging call and listen out for it now. I wonder now 
that I'm writing this if hawks even live in one place during the winter, 
whether they even stay in their nests or move around.  I hope you get some 
fruitful responses to your question!
Best Wishes,
Lea

On Sun, Jan 17, 2021 at 12:36 PM Tim Gallagher 
mailto:t...@cornell.edu>> wrote:
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, sitting on the 
porch rail and facing the house. Perhaps it saw its reflection in the window 
and was calling to it. Anyway, it took off, flying across Main Street and 
disappeared between some houses along the creek.

Last month, on December 6, I saw something similar—but this time it involved an 
adult female Cooper's Hawk and a juvenile male, which was following her around 
through the trees beside some houses and calling like the one this morning. I 
thought at the time that December seemed very late for a young hawk to be 
following its parent around, begging for food. I'd only heard that call before 
in the late spring and summer around Cooper's Hawk nests.

Has anyone else heard Cooper's Hawk food-begging calls in the winter?
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Re: [cayugabirds-l] Cooper's Hawk

[Tim Gallagher]

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 one in the field behind my house. 
They can give a nasty bite to a hawk. I've trapped numerous red-tails over the 
years that have scars on their feet from squirrel bites.

Tim


From: Donna Lee Scott 
Sent: Monday, January 18, 2021 10:55 AM
To: Tim Gallagher 
Cc: Lea LSF ; CAYUGABIRDS-L 

Subject: Re: [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 ago I watched a Bald Eagle drop from a tree on my beach to catch a 
mink that had gone to water’s edge to drink. It flew up into another tree and 
ate it.
Thx
Donna

Donna Scott
Lansing
Sent from my iPhone

On Jan 18, 2021, at 10:47 AM, Tim Gallagher 
mailto:t...@cornell.edu>> wrote:

Hi Lea,

It certainly might have been a Cooper's Hawk that killed your chicken. We also 
have Great Horned Owls and Red-tailed Hawks in and around the village. This 
time of year, a lot of juvenile raptors are starving and desperate to catch 
something to eat. Most of them don't survive until spring. If a desperately 
hungry hawk sees a chicken out in the open, not protected by chicken wire, 
there's a decent chance it will attack it—which is completely understandable.

The Cooper's Hawks I've seen in the village might be local birds. I found a 
Cooper's Hawk nest a few years ago in the swamp behind the school. Maybe they 
nested there again last spring.

Best wishes,

Tim


From: Lea LSF mailto:leaelles...@gmail.com>>
Sent: Sunday, January 17, 2021 6:13 PM
To: Tim Gallagher mailto:t...@cornell.edu>>
Subject: Re: [cayugabirds-l] Cooper's Hawk

Hi Tim,
I live at 22 Main Street in the village, and have observed what my best guess 
told me was a Cooper's Hawk hanging out in a tree over my chicken yard a 
handful of times.  Recently, an animal killed one of my chickens.  I'm guessing 
by the amount of chicken feathers around that it was a hawk who took the 
chicken out, though I don't know if a Cooper's Hawk is big enough.  I am so 
curious about whether this pair that you observed is living nearby. It does 
seem strange to have a food-begging hawk tagging along a parent during winter! 
I'll have to learn the begging call and listen out for it now. I wonder now 
that I'm writing this if hawks even live in one place during the winter, 
whether they even stay in their nests or move around.  I hope you get some 
fruitful responses to your question!
Best Wishes,
Lea

On Sun, Jan 17, 2021 at 12:36 PM Tim Gallagher 
mailto:t...@cornell.edu>> wrote:
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, sitting on the 
porch rail and facing the house. Perhaps it saw its reflection in the window 
and was calling to it. Anyway, it took off, flying across Main Street and 
disappeared between some houses along the creek.

Last month, on December 6, I saw something similar—but this time it involved an 
adult female Cooper's Hawk and a juvenile male, which was following her around 
through the trees beside some houses and calling like the one this morning. I 
thought at the time that December seemed very late for a young hawk to be 
following its parent around, begging for food. I'd only heard that call before 
in the late spring and summer around Cooper's Hawk nests.

Has anyone else heard Cooper's Hawk food-begging calls in the winter?
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Re: [cayugabirds-l] Cooper's Hawk

[Donna Lee Scott]

Must be my fatties hide well when red tailed hawks perch above the yard!
Right now there are 10 SQs  visible.

Donna Scott
Lansing
Sent from my iPhone

On Jan 18, 2021, at 11:13 AM, Linda Ann Woodard 
mailto:l...@cornell.edu>> wrote:

Hi Donna,
  A couple of weeks ago I watched a red-tail catch, kill and eat a grey 
squirrel in my yard. It pinned the squirrel and stayed motionless over it for 
at least five minutes until the squirrel  was dead. It took another 30 minutes 
or so for the hawk to eat its fill.  It left the remains on the ground.  Like 
you I have a large yard with lots of tall tress and open areas.
Linda
Cayuga Heights

From: 
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Sent: Monday, January 18, 2021 10:56 AM
To: Tim Gallagher mailto:t...@cornell.edu>>
Cc: Lea LSF mailto:leaelles...@gmail.com>>; 
CAYUGABIRDS-L 
mailto:cayugabird...@list.cornell.edu>>
Subject: Re: [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 ago I watched a Bald Eagle drop from a tree on my beach to catch a 
mink that had gone to water’s edge to drink. It flew up into another tree and 
ate it.
Thx
Donna
Donna Scott
Lansing
Sent from my iPhone

On Jan 18, 2021, at 10:47 AM, Tim Gallagher 
mailto:t...@cornell.edu>> wrote:
Hi Lea,

It certainly might have been a Cooper's Hawk that killed your chicken. We also 
have Great Horned Owls and Red-tailed Hawks in and around the village. This 
time of year, a lot of juvenile raptors are starving and desperate to catch 
something to eat. Most of them don't survive until spring. If a desperately 
hungry hawk sees a chicken out in the open, not protected by chicken wire, 
there's a decent chance it will attack it—which is completely understandable.

The Cooper's Hawks I've seen in the village might be local birds. I found a 
Cooper's Hawk nest a few years ago in the swamp behind the school. Maybe they 
nested there again last spring.

Best wishes,

Tim


From: Lea LSF mailto:leaelles...@gmail.com>>
Sent: Sunday, January 17, 2021 6:13 PM
To: Tim Gallagher mailto:t...@cornell.edu>>
Subject: Re: [cayugabirds-l] Cooper's Hawk

Hi Tim,
I live at 22 Main Street in the village, and have observed what my best guess 
told me was a Cooper's Hawk hanging out in a tree over my chicken yard a 
handful of times.  Recently, an animal killed one of my chickens.  I'm guessing 
by the amount of chicken feathers around that it was a hawk who took the 
chicken out, though I don't know if a Cooper's Hawk is big enough.  I am so 
curious about whether this pair that you observed is living nearby. It does 
seem strange to have a food-begging hawk tagging along a parent during winter! 
I'll have to learn the begging call and listen out for it now. I wonder now 
that I'm writing this if hawks even live in one place during the winter, 
whether they even stay in their nests or move around.  I hope you get some 
fruitful responses to your question!
Best Wishes,
Lea

On Sun, Jan 17, 2021 at 12:36 PM Tim Gallagher 
mailto:t...@cornell.edu>> wrote:
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, sitting on the 
porch rail and facing the house. Perhaps it saw its reflection in the window 
and was calling to it. Anyway, it took off, flying across Main Street and 
disappeared between some houses along the creek.

Last month, on December 6, I saw something similar—but this time it involved an 
adult female Cooper's Hawk and a juvenile male, which was following her around 
through the trees beside some houses and calling like the one this morning. I 
thought at the time that December seemed very late for a young hawk to be 
following its parent around, begging for food. I'd only heard that call before 
in the late spring and summer around Cooper's Hawk nests.

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RE: [cayugabirds-l] Cooper's Hawk

[Linda Ann Woodard]

Hi Donna,
  A couple of weeks ago I watched a red-tail catch, kill and eat a grey 
squirrel in my yard. It pinned the squirrel and stayed motionless over it for 
at least five minutes until the squirrel  was dead. It took another 30 minutes 
or so for the hawk to eat its fill.  It left the remains on the ground.  Like 
you I have a large yard with lots of tall tress and open areas.
Linda
Cayuga Heights

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Sent: Monday, January 18, 2021 10:56 AM
To: Tim Gallagher 
Cc: Lea LSF ; CAYUGABIRDS-L 

Subject: Re: [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 ago I watched a Bald Eagle drop from a tree on my beach to catch a 
mink that had gone to water’s edge to drink. It flew up into another tree and 
ate it.
Thx
Donna
Donna Scott
Lansing
Sent from my iPhone

On Jan 18, 2021, at 10:47 AM, Tim Gallagher 
mailto:t...@cornell.edu>> wrote:
Hi Lea,

It certainly might have been a Cooper's Hawk that killed your chicken. We also 
have Great Horned Owls and Red-tailed Hawks in and around the village. This 
time of year, a lot of juvenile raptors are starving and desperate to catch 
something to eat. Most of them don't survive until spring. If a desperately 
hungry hawk sees a chicken out in the open, not protected by chicken wire, 
there's a decent chance it will attack it—which is completely understandable.

The Cooper's Hawks I've seen in the village might be local birds. I found a 
Cooper's Hawk nest a few years ago in the swamp behind the school. Maybe they 
nested there again last spring.

Best wishes,

Tim


From: Lea LSF mailto:leaelles...@gmail.com>>
Sent: Sunday, January 17, 2021 6:13 PM
To: Tim Gallagher mailto:t...@cornell.edu>>
Subject: Re: [cayugabirds-l] Cooper's Hawk

Hi Tim,
I live at 22 Main Street in the village, and have observed what my best guess 
told me was a Cooper's Hawk hanging out in a tree over my chicken yard a 
handful of times.  Recently, an animal killed one of my chickens.  I'm guessing 
by the amount of chicken feathers around that it was a hawk who took the 
chicken out, though I don't know if a Cooper's Hawk is big enough.  I am so 
curious about whether this pair that you observed is living nearby. It does 
seem strange to have a food-begging hawk tagging along a parent during winter! 
I'll have to learn the begging call and listen out for it now. I wonder now 
that I'm writing this if hawks even live in one place during the winter, 
whether they even stay in their nests or move around.  I hope you get some 
fruitful responses to your question!
Best Wishes,
Lea

On Sun, Jan 17, 2021 at 12:36 PM Tim Gallagher 
mailto:t...@cornell.edu>> wrote:
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, sitting on the 
porch rail and facing the house. Perhaps it saw its reflection in the window 
and was calling to it. Anyway, it took off, flying across Main Street and 
disappeared between some houses along the creek.

Last month, on December 6, I saw something similar—but this time it involved an 
adult female Cooper's Hawk and a juvenile male, which was following her around 
through the trees beside some houses and calling like the one this morning. I 
thought at the time that December seemed very late for a young hawk to be 
following its parent around, begging for food. I'd only heard that call before 
in the late spring and summer around Cooper's Hawk nests.

Has anyone else heard Cooper's Hawk food-begging calls in the winter?
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Re: [cayugabirds-l] Cooper's Hawk

[Donna Lee Scott]

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 ago I watched a Bald Eagle drop from a tree on my beach to catch a 
mink that had gone to water’s edge to drink. It flew up into another tree and 
ate it.
Thx
Donna

Donna Scott
Lansing
Sent from my iPhone

On Jan 18, 2021, at 10:47 AM, Tim Gallagher 
mailto:t...@cornell.edu>> wrote:

Hi Lea,

It certainly might have been a Cooper's Hawk that killed your chicken. We also 
have Great Horned Owls and Red-tailed Hawks in and around the village. This 
time of year, a lot of juvenile raptors are starving and desperate to catch 
something to eat. Most of them don't survive until spring. If a desperately 
hungry hawk sees a chicken out in the open, not protected by chicken wire, 
there's a decent chance it will attack it—which is completely understandable.

The Cooper's Hawks I've seen in the village might be local birds. I found a 
Cooper's Hawk nest a few years ago in the swamp behind the school. Maybe they 
nested there again last spring.

Best wishes,

Tim


From: Lea LSF mailto:leaelles...@gmail.com>>
Sent: Sunday, January 17, 2021 6:13 PM
To: Tim Gallagher mailto:t...@cornell.edu>>
Subject: Re: [cayugabirds-l] Cooper's Hawk

Hi Tim,
I live at 22 Main Street in the village, and have observed what my best guess 
told me was a Cooper's Hawk hanging out in a tree over my chicken yard a 
handful of times.  Recently, an animal killed one of my chickens.  I'm guessing 
by the amount of chicken feathers around that it was a hawk who took the 
chicken out, though I don't know if a Cooper's Hawk is big enough.  I am so 
curious about whether this pair that you observed is living nearby. It does 
seem strange to have a food-begging hawk tagging along a parent during winter! 
I'll have to learn the begging call and listen out for it now. I wonder now 
that I'm writing this if hawks even live in one place during the winter, 
whether they even stay in their nests or move around.  I hope you get some 
fruitful responses to your question!
Best Wishes,
Lea

On Sun, Jan 17, 2021 at 12:36 PM Tim Gallagher 
mailto:t...@cornell.edu>> wrote:
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, sitting on the 
porch rail and facing the house. Perhaps it saw its reflection in the window 
and was calling to it. Anyway, it took off, flying across Main Street and 
disappeared between some houses along the creek.

Last month, on December 6, I saw something similar—but this time it involved an 
adult female Cooper's Hawk and a juvenile male, which was following her around 
through the trees beside some houses and calling like the one this morning. I 
thought at the time that December seemed very late for a young hawk to be 
following its parent around, begging for food. I'd only heard that call before 
in the late spring and summer around Cooper's Hawk nests.

Has anyone else heard Cooper's Hawk food-begging calls in the winter?
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Re: [cayugabirds-l] Cooper's Hawk

[Tim Gallagher]

Hi Lea,

It certainly might have been a Cooper's Hawk that killed your chicken. We also 
have Great Horned Owls and Red-tailed Hawks in and around the village. This 
time of year, a lot of juvenile raptors are starving and desperate to catch 
something to eat. Most of them don't survive until spring. If a desperately 
hungry hawk sees a chicken out in the open, not protected by chicken wire, 
there's a decent chance it will attack it—which is completely understandable.

The Cooper's Hawks I've seen in the village might be local birds. I found a 
Cooper's Hawk nest a few years ago 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 observed what my best guess 
told me was a Cooper's Hawk hanging out in a tree over my chicken yard a 
handful of times.  Recently, an animal killed one of my chickens.  I'm guessing 
by the amount of chicken feathers around that it was a hawk who took the 
chicken out, though I don't know if a Cooper's Hawk is big enough.  I am so 
curious about whether this pair that you observed is living nearby. It does 
seem strange to have a food-begging hawk tagging along a parent during winter! 
I'll have to learn the begging call and listen out for it now. I wonder now 
that I'm writing this if hawks even live in one place during the winter, 
whether they even stay in their nests or move around.  I hope you get some 
fruitful responses to your question!
Best Wishes,
Lea

On Sun, Jan 17, 2021 at 12:36 PM Tim Gallagher 
mailto:t...@cornell.edu>> wrote:
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, sitting on the 
porch rail and facing the house. Perhaps it saw its reflection in the window 
and was calling to it. Anyway, it took off, flying across Main Street and 
disappeared between some houses along the creek.

Last month, on December 6, I saw something similar—but this time it involved an 
adult female Cooper's Hawk and a juvenile male, which was following her around 
through the trees beside some houses and calling like the one this morning. I 
thought at the time that December seemed very late for a young hawk to be 
following its parent around, begging for food. I'd only heard that call before 
in the late spring and summer around Cooper's Hawk nests.

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Re:[cayugabirds-l] Cooper's Hawk takes Red-bellied Woodpecker

[Geo Kloppel]

...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 PM, Geo Kloppel  wrote:
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> Feeders are deserted now! I wonder how long this will last?

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Re: [cayugabirds-l] Cooper's Hawk

[Diana]

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 sitting on a tree 
outside our normal viewing area from the house.

Montezuma and around was not too eventful with the high winds. We did see three 
Rough-legged Hawks on the corner of Bixby and Savannah Springs Rd. one was very 
dark. The others were in flight so I could not make out the coloring as well. 

Diana Whiting

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On Feb 17, 2013, at 12:01 PM, Carol Keeler carolk...@adelphia.net wrote:

 My Cooper's Hawk has made counting birds for the Backyard Bird Count 
 impossible.  It's been here each day, so no birds are coming to the feeders.  
 Yesterday it took a female Cardinal.  This morning it sat in the weeping pine 
 where the feeders are located from at least 7:15 to 8:30. I was amazed at how 
 long it stayed. I don't know how much longer it stayed since I left to get 
 groceries.  One photographer from out west, Ron Dudley, has said that in very 
 cold weather many raptors are sticky.   They tend to stay put and don't 
 flush easily.  My Cooper's was sticky this morning.  I looked out just a 
 while ago and it was back again, but didn't stay long.  I assume it has had 
 quite a bit of success hunting in my yard since it's around so often.
 
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