FreeLists / tn-bird / [TN-Bird] Cooper's hawk desires a happy New Year....as in a birdy meal!!!!

[Dthomp2669@xxxxxxx]

Happy New Year,  
 
Good afternoon on a sunny but windy and soon-to-be-COLD Charlotte Park  area 
of West Nashville New Year's Day!  It is just lovely to look outside  and see 
all the birds feeding at Dee's "Smorgabird" where they are filling up  with 
"fuel" to get them through the 15 degree temperature that is predicted for  
daylight tomorrow.  The wind is pretty biting, getting ready to blow the  cold 
front to us.
 
My flocks of birds just left as one group, so I knew a hawk had come into  
the neighborhood.  In mere seconds, I saw a beautiful adult Cooper's hawk  fly 
in from the back and perch on a tree just behind my deck.  I got a  couple of 
photos of it before it gave up on the empty deck and left. The birds  haven't 
come back, and I saw the hawk fly past the house again a few  minutes.  It's 
HUNGRY and is looking for a nice mourning dove or rock  pigeon for its dinner.
 
My feeder birds just returned, and the back yard trees are teeming with  
chickadees again.  It wouldn't surprise me to find that "Coop" is still  
hanging 
around nearby in hiding.  My first birds of 2008 were  white-throated sparrows 
and cardinals that were on the deck to feed at  daybreak.  It has been REALLY 
busy out there all day!  I just  replenished all the food so that my "guests" 
can fill up for the cold night  ahead.  I put plenty of peanut butter on apple 
halves in the suet feeder  for my bossy mockingbirds and all the other birds 
that enjoy peanut  butter.
 
Here's wishing you lots of happy and successful birding in 2008.
 
Dee Thompson
Nashville, TN



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