Hello Birders, Just moments ago, I looked out on my deck here in the Charlotte Park section of West Nashville near the Cleece's Boat Landing, and saw an immature Cooper's hawk perched on the rail only twenty feet away with its back toward me, then it turned around to watch a squirrel feeding on the deck below. As the bird was lower than my eye level, I could actually see the orangy top of its head which sort of blew my mind. All my other immature Cooper's have been up above me, and I don't remember having ever noticed the orange before. It stayed in that spot for about two minutes just letting me watch it. The bird flew across the corner of the deck and landed where it stayed for about thirty seconds, then flew up to a tree above, then to a tree back in a neighbor's yard where it stayed about five minutes before flying further east. I kept hoping it would "take" one of my many squirrels, but I guess they are just too much for it. They sure didn't seem to have any fear of the hawk, The squirrel on the deck just kept right on feeding only 5 feet away from it! Dee Thompson Nashville, Davidson Count, TN =================NOTES TO SUBSCRIBER===================== The TN-Bird Net requires you to sign your messages with first and last name, city (town) and state abbreviation. ----------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------- To post to this mailing list, simply send email to: tn-bird@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx ----------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, send email to: tn-bird-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with 'unsubscribe' in the Subject field. * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * TN-Bird Net is owned by the Tennessee Ornithological Society Neither the society(TOS) nor its moderator(s) endorse the views or opinions expressed by the members of this discussion group. Moderator: Wallace Coffey, Bristol, TN wallace@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Visit the Tennessee Ornithological Society web site at http://www.tnbirds.org * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Topographical Maps located at http://topozone.com/find.asp * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * ========================================================