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["Carole Gobert" <cpgobert@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

I just answered my own question.  I looked on the web and found photographs 
of guinea fowl feathers that look exactly like those in my thicket.

Carole Gobert
Knoxville, Knox County, Tennessee

>From: "Carole Gobert" <cpgobert@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>Reply-To: cpgobert@xxxxxxxxxxx
>To: tn-bird@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>Subject: [TN-Bird] feather question
>Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2005 10:14:24 -0500
>
>I could use some help identifying a bird from a pile of feathers.  Saturday
>a large scattering of black and white feathers appeared in and around the
>small thicket behind my house.  A Cooper's hawk has been hanging out there.
>In fact, when I walked into the thicket to examine the feathers yesterday, 
>I
>surprised the hawk (actually, we surprised each other) and it flew away.
>Some of the smaller feathers are pure white and the larger ones are gray
>along the shaft and then black with large white spots.  Do red bellied
>woodpeckers have spotted feathers?
>
>I have been finding these feathers in my yard for a couple years... one at 
>a
>time, and I always thought they belonged to the helmeted guinea fowls that
>are kept by someone up the street and allowed to roam free.  My back yard
>feeders and bird bath are a favorite place for these fowl to visit.  But
>upon finding so many of them and suspecting a Cooper's hawk, I wonder could
>a Cooper's hawk really take down a guinea fowl which is quite a large bird?
>
>If the feathers belong to a woodpecker, wouldn't at least some of them be
>striped?
>
>Of course, I'm hoping it was a guinea fowl.  There have been 5 of them
>lately and I will count them the next time I see them.  I haven't seen them
>since finding the feathers, but then I wasn't home much this weekend.
>
>I'd appreciate any help you can offer on this.  Thanks.
>
>Carole Gobert
>Knoxville, Knox County, Tennessee
>
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