[TN-Bird] Re: Cooper's Hawk reappears
- From: "Sylvia Anglin" <sang905@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <tn-bird@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 28 Nov 2004 11:13:26 -0500
Hi, Dee and TN birders.
I've been surprised this month by the sightings of hawks here in the city.
There may be a resident Cooper's here in the Edgehill neighborhood, since
we've spotted one several times even as recently as yesterday, flying across
Villa Place between Edgehill and Wedgewood avenues. We got GREAT looks at
one a couple weeks ago as it perched in the hackberry outside our apartment
door one morning.
Besides the imm. Red-tail in that same hackberry on voting day morning that
i posted about, i saw one (the same?) a week or so later a block from where
i work. I was outside on a break taking a walk and saw it fly along Hayes
and land on a street light in a parking lot across from Baptist Hospital. I
was able to stand right below it and observe it for as long as i dared
extend my break! It didn't seem at all concerned that i was so close. A
Mockingbird went for a head shot but then left it alone; that didn't seem to
bother it either.
We've let the sunflower seed run out now, as we're moving to our new (to us)
house in the burbs southeast of Nashville later this week. Just in the nick
of time, we were finally able to add Am.Goldfinch to our 7-month inner-city
yardlist; one (!) showed up and fed for a little while this weekend.
Happy birding!
Sylvia Anglin
Nashville TN
----- Original Message -----
From: <Dthomp2669@xxxxxxx>
To: <tn-bird@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, November 26, 2004 12:44 PM
Subject: [TN-Bird] Cooper's Hawk reappears
> Greetings to all you overstuffed birders from another one here in the
> Charlotte Park area of West Nashville, Davidson County, a few blocks east
of the
> Cleece's Ferry Boat Landing on the Cumberland River. Hope your
Thanksgivings were
> all very "full-filling!"
> At approximately 6:35 AM today, a Cooper's hawk flew past the side of my
> house and through the trees in my back yard and dropped down in the back
yard of
> the third house about 300 feet down the line behind mine. Seconds later,
the
> bird was up in the air clutching a small "something" in its talons as it
flew
> in the direction toward the river with its catch. I THINK maybe this is
the
> first time I've see any Cooper's since nesting season, so I'm glad to see
one
> hunting in my area again. There has always been a family of Cooper's
hawks in
> this area since the early 1980's when I used to see them on my way to work
in
> Cockrill Bend--most often in the proximity of Richland Creek as it
meanders
> along White Bridge Road/Briley Parkway. When I moved to this house in
1991, I
> began to see them in my yard or on occasional flyovers. I know they MUST
nest
> somewhere in this part of West Nashville, but I have never been able to
hone in
> on their exact location which is probably on some of the posted property
out
> here.
>
> Bossy Mock came to raid the poke berry bush this morning and ignored the
> peanut butter. I'm sure the appetite for PB will return by evening.
>
> The cosmos got frost bitten last night.
>
> On purpose, I have decided to leave the fallen leaves on my deck as ALL my
> feeder birds are now picking around in the leaves and apparently finding
things
> to eat. I can sit here working with my laptop (perched on a sturdy TV
table)
> just inside the French doors of my dining area and, literally, have the
> cardinals, blue jays, juncos, sparrows, wrens and even the chickadees and
titmice
> searching for "goodies" right at my feet. If the doors weren't there, I
could
> reach over and pick them up. It is just awesome to have them so "up close
and
> personal."
>
> Although I've had my hummingbird feeder up, I've only had one unidentified
> hummer lately that I just glimpsed leaving the feeder when I came home
yesterday
> from my volunteer work at St. Thomas Hospital ER. I know it was a hummer,
> but it fled so fast that I just couldn't get a "bead" on it except
greenish back
> and GONE! I haven't seen it again.
>
> Must get a refill on left overs from yesterday and try not to overstuff
> myself again.
>
> Cheers, prayers and great birding,
>
> Dee Thompson
> Nashville, TN
>
>
>
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