[TN-Bird] Re: Coopers Hawks, West Nashville area

In a message dated 8/25/2006 3:02:38 A.M. Central Standard Time,  
MOURNLIGHT@xxxxxxx writes:
I know  there are several birders who live close to the West Nashville   
area.  
There are two adult females and at least one adult male  Coopers  Hawks who 
have stayed in the same few trees all week.   You can park in the  park, 
located 
at 6730 Charlotte Pike (beside the  West Police Station).   Listen for just a 
moment, and you'll  soon hear the very vocal birds.  The  squirrel population 
is  
dwindling rapidly.  I've seen them every day between  2 and 7  p.m.  They are 
beautiful specimens and are lighting close enough  to  be very well seen.
M. Light, Nashville
Hello Birders,
I wonder if those birds had all lived and nested on the former Ganier  
property that is being totally cleared on Charlotte Pike to put in a new  
shopping 
center.  That was a gorgeous pristine tract of beautiful woods  that I am 
really sorry to see cleared.  I am sure that many creatures  have been 
dispersed 
from there to other places in the area.  I've seen more  rabbits and smelled a 
few more skunks around my place since the clearing  started.  I wonder where 
the fox family went that had a den down along the  edge of the property near 
I-40.  


Although I've had adult Cooper's in my yard briefly from time to time,  it 
seems that they "deliver" their young over here to pick off doves and mice  
from 
my Charlotte Park deck about a mile East of  the park beside  the West Police 
Station in the West Nashville section of Davidson  County.  Once, "Papa" took 
a rock pigeon here just to show "Immy" how it  was done after the immature 
had missed its target on a couple of tries.  I  have lots of photos of one of 
last year's young Cooper's, but haven't been  fortunate enough to get much on 
any of the young this year as they get in, out  and off the deck.  I have seen 
a 
baby "Coop" rake one dove and one mouse so  far this season.  It's has a 
couple of misses as well.   They sit  up in the tree above the deck more than 
last 
year's young did.  One of last  year's birds would come down and perch on a 
deck chair, on top of the ice chest  or just a foot or two from my French doors 
on the floor of the deck to sit  and watch, until it apparently realized that 
it would be more successful  watching from the tree.
 
Cheers and prayers,
 
Dee Thompson
Nashville, TN  


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