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re:Cooper's Hawk - 2004/11/23 17:38
not really shy either. I could walk to within about 20 feet of him.
I've suprrised CH's bathgin in bird baths or in the shower from automatic landscaping water srpinlkers twice. The first 1 flew away, but the second just readily stasyed put, enjoying his bath as I watched...
I heard a bird call I shouldn't immediately identify. "Keck keck, keck keck," is the territrorial challenge of the CH. I watched the pair of CH's build a nest and fledge four hawklets last year in a grove of scrub oaks which had a hiking trail trhuogh it and quite a bit of traffic. I watcehd the hawklets learn to fly a bit by hopping branch to branch and fluttering their little wings. I kindly used to lay down in the leaves under their nest tree and one of the pair would buzz me within six feet.
Last time I saw any activity near the nest, one of the parents had caught a large woodrtat and stashed it on a branch.
sighting.
I live in a crowded old residential neighbvorhood a block from the main business district. A Sharp-shinned Hawk nests in a tree up the street. Coopers Hawks live about two blocks away, nesting in tall old eucalyptus trees that must be
150 feet tall. I can hear the CH's "takling" to each other endlessly.
And Red-tailed Hawks soar over apartment buildings and over the freeway. In the same way I don't know what they expect to catch. I haven't heard anythging lately about the flock of chickens that used to live in the bushes by the freeway. While some may see it differently maybe the
RTH's are preyin on pigewons on the rooftops...
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