FreeLists / tn-bird / [TN-Bird] Re: Red tailed hawk in Knoxville

["Carole Gobert" <cpgobert@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Just saw the hawk again (around 2:45 p.m.), downtown Knoxville, in a tree in 
front of/back of/side of TVA, Wall Street end of Market Square.  Being 
pestered by bluejays & mockingbirds.  This hawk is easily visible and not 
bothered by people below on the sidewalk just a few yards away pointing, 
photographing, etc.  How very unhawklike.

Carole Gobert, Knoxville, Knox County, Tennessee


>From: "Carole Gobert" <cpgobert@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>Reply-To: cpgobert@xxxxxxxxxxx
>To: tn-bird@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>Subject: [TN-Bird] Red tailed hawk in Knoxville
>Date: Wed, 09 Jun 2004 10:17:32 -0400
>
>I was treated to a rare sight this morning as I exited my car in the 
>parking
>lot behind a row of old brick office buildings in downtown Knoxville.  One
>of the buildings, about 5 storeys up, has a large vine growing out of it
>near the top.  A large (female?) red tailed hawk was sitting on the window
>ledge under the shade of the vine being strafed by a mockingbird.  In fact
>it was the mockingbird that drew my attention to the hawk.  I watched for
>several minutes through old binoculars I keep in the car and then went up 
>to
>work in a building 2 doors down from the hawk building.  About an hour 
>later
>fellow office workers whom I had alerted to the presence of the hawk were
>out back taking a cigarette break and saw the hawk on top of a light pole
>feasting on a bird it had caught; they were not able to ID the breakfast
>bird but it appeared to "have more meat on it" than the mockingbird. (Guess
>I'd get to see more birds if I smoked)  Hopefully a pigeon or starling.
>
>An exciting way to start the day.
>
>Carole Gobert
>Knoxville, Knox County, Tennessee
>
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