[TN-Bird] FW: re Cooper Hawk menace.

I, too, have a Cooper's hawk. As big as it is, I figure it's a female. She's 
lived nearby for at least 3 years, maybe more (what's their life span in the 
wild, anybody?), and perhaps that's why I'm not getting 300 Am goldfinches 
feeding as I have in past years. However, the doves and smaller birds feed at 
all times of the day, despite the relative openness of my driveway (a 100' 
alleyway between lines of trees). Every once in awhile, though, I hear what 
sounds like a feather bomb going off as 20-50 birds disappear in an instant, 
and I know who has come to call.
So your Pileated wp is skittish about a Cooper's!? I thought a bird as large as 
a Pileated wouldn't give it much thought. Then again, my stepdaughter watched a 
Merlin or immature Sharp-shinned hawk take down an Am. robin last week. Forgive 
me if I'm repeating an earlier post (I have CRS), but it drove the robin out of 
mid-air and into a woven-wire fence, they fought very vigorously for several 
seconds, and the robin was dead. Ashley isn't a birder and wasn't sure for a 
second what she was watching -- her first impression was extremely aggressive 
mating before she sorted it out. Out of sheer "mom reflex" (hey, you two!) she 
clapped her hands to break up the altercation but the raptor had already killed 
the robin and flew to a nearby tree probably entertaining dour thoughts about 
having its dinner stolen by a human, of all things...

Liz Singley
Kingston (Roane Co.) TN



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Sent : 3/19/2007 2:33:11 PM
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Subject : FW: [TN-Bird] re Cooper Hawk menace.

We recently had a similar problem with Cooper's Hawk near my mother-in-laws 
where I typically take pix of birds. Fortunately, or unfortunately, three blue 
jays teamed up on the Coopers Hawk and attacked him as he got closer. I 
heard the vicious assault but only got my camera up in time to catch the 
fleeing 
hawk. Since then, I have not seen any blue jays near my usual viewing spot 
and the coopers hawk typically stays a little more than a half mile away and 
doesn't get closer.
On another note about hawks, on Saturday I saw 3 hawks in a three mile span 
along the new Highway 79 from the area where the coopers hawk usually hangs 
near the bi-county landfill out down towards Stewart county. They all look 
pretty much the same and I am trying to make a determination of which bird it 
is.. because it was not the coopers hawk near the landfill.
Also, on Sunday, I saw the eagle at Fort Donelson sitting on its nest while 
staring at the 10 people with cameras trained on it. It moved around alot, but 
mainly stared toward the entrance and didn't pay much attention tot he crowd 
to its north. I was there once when an eagle flew in from the north right 
around the end of the day. There was another eagle on the nest at the time.
Jeff Grimes
Woodlawn TN.


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