FreeLists / tn-bird / [TN-Bird] SHARP-SHINNED at Bellevue, behind mall; red-tailed hawk also

[Dthomp2669@xxxxxxx]

Greetings,
 
About 4 PM yesterday, a sharp-shinned hawk was wheeling &  turning above a 
house on Bellevue's Sawyer Brown Road right between the  Macy's in Bellevue 
Mall 
and the Waterford Assisted Living Facility.  It was  a perfect specimen with 
the LONG tail appearing even longer than most as it  rode the thermal while 
searching for a meal.  It broke soaring cadence a  couple of times to go after 
small pray, but it resumed soaring after  "misses."  It was close enough to my 
window at the Waterford that I  had a "front row ringside" seat.  Also, 
earlier in the day (noonish),  I was outside to feed a hungry mockingbird (yes, 
I 
already have a new one here  that has to be satisfied with my left-over rolls), 
when a red-tailed hawk spied  something from on high and honed in on as it 
began a long plunge toward an  area behind trees from me.  I never saw the bird 
come up after the plunge,  so it may have connected with its prey and been able 
to eat it on site which I  have seen red-tails do many times.
 
Happy birding.
 
Dee Thompson
Nashville, TN

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