FreeLists / bristol-birds / [Bristol-Birds] Second Cooper's Hawk Nest at Oak Hill Cemeter

["Rick Phillips" <sunfish0501@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

This morning I was out for a walk at Oak Hill Cemetery.  This is a small 
cemetery located in north Kingsport, Sullivan Co., Tn. As I was walking I saw a 
smallish Cooper's Hawk flying across the cemetery carrying a small bird in it's 
talons and headed for a nearby woodlot on the north (Lynn Garden) side of the 
property. I was anxious to follow him as I had seen a nice looking stick nest 
in that area back before the leaves came out on the trees.  I never saw any 
birds at the nest and sort of forgot about it after I found an active Cooper's 
Hawk nest a few hundred yards away on the other side of the cemetery back in 
March.  I walked over to the edge of the woodlot and found the nest.  Couldn't 
see any birds near or on it.  After watching for a few minutes a male Cooper's 
Hawk flew into the nest and a female came up and flew off.  The male stayed at 
the nest for around 15 minutes.  I could not see if he was feeding young.  The 
female returned and the male flew off again. The birds were quiet with no 
vocalizations.

This is active Cooper's Hawk nest number two for the cemetery this spring.  
Another still active nest is just a few hundred yards away on the other side of 
the cemetery.   

Other good birds there this morning were:

Wood Thrush
Swainson's Thrush
Blackburnian Warbler
Bay-breasted Warbler
Yellow Warbler
Summer Tanager
Indigo Bunting
Rose-breasted Grosbeak
Chipping Sparrow


Rick Phillips
Sullivan County
Kingsport, Tennessee