At 5:30 this evening I stepped out of a building at Northeast State and at my feet was a hawk with wings partially spread trying to hug the sidewalk. The bird had evidently hit some glass in the building I was leaving. I did a walk around and could see no injuries and after a minute or two the bird flew competently to a nearby pine tree and perched about 5 ft from the ground. It was a large Cooper's Hawk. I was able to observe the bird at a distance of about 2 feet for some five minutes - absolutely beautiful. I teach across the hall from Tom McNeil so I got him to come down and take a look also. We observed the bird several minutes within arm's reach and it seemed somewhat addled. When Tom moved to observe the bird from another vantage point it evidently thought it was being surrounded and flew to a nearby shrub and then unfortunately glanced off of another window. A brief search did not find the bird so it apparently was not seriously injured. . Jack Litz Kingsport ************************************************* BRISTOL BIRDS NET LIST Bristol Birds Net Photo Gallery located at: http://f2.pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/jwcoffeyy/album?.dir=/efd5 This is a regional birding list sponsored by the Bristol Bird Club to facilitate communications between birders and bird clubs of Southwest Virginia and Northeast Tennessee. -------------------------------------------------- You are subscribed to Bristol-Birds. To post to this mailing list, simply send an email to: bristol-birds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe, send an email to bristol-birds-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the one word 'unsubscribe' in the Subject field. -------------------------------------------------- Wallace Coffey, Moderator wallace@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (423)764-****