[mou-net] Cooper's Hawk Predators?

2011-01-10 Thread peter schmidt
Recently a Cooper's hawk has been dining on birds at my feeders, yesterday I found just the head of the Cooper's hawk, no plucked feather pile. What is the most likely predator that can take a Cooper's hawk, Barred Owl? fox? I live in Mpls near the Mississippi. Peter Schmidt Photography

Re: [mou-net] Cooper's Hawk Predators?

2011-01-10 Thread Jim Ryan
A telephone wire can also take a COHA. Maybe that's what happened and some lucky predator came along and took advantage. Did you find any feathers nearby? One fall morning years back I found a ruffed grouse just outside of Hibbing MN that had just been beheaded by a car antenna. It was grouse