[TN-Bird] Goshawks

From: "Richard Lewis" <mountainbirds@xxxxxxxxx>
To: tn-bird@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2009 22:48:20 -0500
I went outside this morning (2-10) to check a banding net in my yard.
Two pine siskin were sitting on the ground in front of me trying to look
invisible.  Not unusual behavior for them.  I then heard a loud 
accipiter call.  Probably what the siskins were trying to be 
unnoticed by.  As I started looking for the accipiter, I noticed 3 large 
accipiters
approaching from the south flying north. I did not have my binoculars with me.
They were larger than a crow with long tails.
All were the same size. They were 200 to 300 foot in the air.
At least 2 of them were giving a loud hoarse accipiter like call 
that was different from any sound I have ever heard a cooper's give. They were 
calling the 
entire time I watched them. After they had pasted, I immediately went to the 
computer
and played the calls of the goshawk and cooper's hawk.  The calls I heard
matched the Goshawk exactly.  The Goshawk's appeared to be just moving through.
I will keep an eye out for them, though.  

Richard Lewis
Bristol,TN


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