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[Cooper’s Hawk photo by Larry Blakeley, from Univ. Texas El Paso website]
Until last year, a pair of Cooper’s Hawks nested in Live Oak Park, two blocks from my house. The tree where they made their nest died and was removed — no complaint, I understand the danger of having a big dead tree in a popular park — and everyone in the neighborhood was sad that the hawks didn’t just find some other nearby tree. Well, apparently they actually did find some other nearby tree (though nobody seems to know exactly where): last week a neighbor reported two adult hawks and a very young one, flying about the neighborhood. And today, my wife saw them checking out the neighborhood, passing over our house a few times as they seemed to be investigating the nearby blocks. Yay! I will report this to the Cooper’s Hawk project that I blogged about a few months ago.
Celestial Sidekick on 26 Aug 2008 at 12:59 am #
This is great to know. I’ll keep an eye out.
Fernando on 28 Jun 2011 at 9:06 pm #
We have two cooper hawks living in our trees and they have nestlings. We have taking many pictures & videos, at the seme time we make sure we stay away,
Pam on 03 Sep 2011 at 6:06 pm #
this doesn’t look like a coopers hawk. I have seen them in mass. and they are very different!
johnathan on 20 Dec 2011 at 10:33 am #
this is a male coopers hawk plumeage varys between male and female juvinile and adult
Gambolin' Man on 09 Jul 2012 at 8:23 pm #
Hi there! I’ve seen them in my oak tree beside the house, as well as flying over the skies of Live Oak Park recently! I live near Berryman and Milvia, and was amazed to see it.
Check it out at http://berkeleybackyardbirdblog.blogspot.com/2012/07/sharp-shinns-red-tails-and-harlans-dark.html
Although, it was Sharp-shinned, but hard to tell, I admit.