On Fri, Jun 6, 2025, 1:53 AM Mag Tait <magtait1...> wrote:
> Do you think it was just keeping the squirrel away from its nest or was
> the squirrel too heavy for it?
>
> I still remember a few years ago when we had two juvenile and not yet very
> smart Cooper’s Hawks nearby. They were sitting in a tree toward the end of
> my street looking down , so I stopped to watch them. There were gray
> squirrels close by and I watched the hawks take a couple of passes and
> completely miss them.
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> On Jun 5, 2025, at 2:24 PM, Allen Chartier <amazilia3...> wrote:
>
>
> I watched a Cooper's Hawk snatch a Red Squirrel out of a pine tree about
> 20 feet over my head. Another female at a nest 50-feet up, watched a Gray
> Squirrel climbing her nest tree until it got too close and she flew down,
> grabbed it, and flew straight away from the nest about 100 feet...and just
> dropped the squirrel.
>
> Allen T. Chartier
> Inkster, Michigan
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>
> On Wed, Jun 4, 2025 at 11:25 PM 'April Deborah Campbell' via Birders <
> <birders...> wrote:
>
>> I was a bit confused by this account as well. It was my understanding
>> that Sharpies don’t do mammals (what about a shrew ?:) or nest around here.
>> I was thinking it’s more likely Lynn has Coops in her yard. I once watched
>> a female Coop snatch a rather large young rabbit on the fly, rip its head
>> off at the local plucking post and feed it to four, huge nestllings in a
>> nest located in a white pine. The boys get the chipmunks, It’s about all
>> the mammal they can handle. So some great raptors in Osa Peninsula, Costa
>> Rica last week. Humid and hot beyond belief. I much prefer the cloud forest.
>>
>> On Jun 4, 2025, at 5:35 PM, '<plynkny...>' via Birders <
>> <birders...> wrote:
>>
>> To all the Birders,
>>
>> Thanks for all the information about "my" hawks. We've had them in the
>> neighborhood for decades, but not this close to my yard. I'll just leave
>> the feathers where I found them and they'll get shredded by the lawn
>> mower.
>>
>> Lynn
>>
>> On Wednesday, June 4, 2025 at 02:19:09 PM EDT, Janet Hinshaw <
>> <jhinshaw...> wrote:
>>
>>
>> Just a reminder, it is illegal to keep feathers, eggs, nests, bones, or
>> any body parts of any migratory birds, including raptors and owls. This is
>> for the birds’ protection since you can’t tell if you just picked up a
>> piece you found or if you killed the bird to get it. Look at it, enjoy it,
>> and leave it where you found it.
>> Sent from my iPhone
>>
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Jun 3, 2025 at 9:17 AM '<plynkny...>' via Birders <
>> <birders...> wrote:
>>
>> Thanks, Allen for your comments.
>>
>> I'm beginning to collect the shed, brown-striped primaries, the longest
>> of which is 9". The hawks still have vertical streaks on their breasts,
>> although they're changing wing color. Is it fair to assume that these
>> birds were hatched this spring? I first saw them the third week in April
>> as they were examining the old squirrel nests.
>>
>> Lynn
>>
>> On Thursday, May 29, 2025 at 06:31:13 PM EDT, Allen Chartier <
>> <amazilia3...> wrote:
>>
>>
>> Cooper's Hawks do hunt mammals. Sharp-shinned are too small, and
>> generally do not nest in the southern half of the Lower Peninsula.
>>
>> Allen T. Chartier
>> Inkster, Michigan
>> Email: <amazilia3...>
>> Photos: http://www.flickr.com/photos/mihummingbirdguy/collections/ >> Website/Blog: http://mihummingbirdguy.blogspot.com/ >>
>> On Thu, May 29, 2025, 6:19 PM '<plynkny...>' via Birders <
>> <birders...> wrote:
>>
>> About an hour ago, one of the Sharp Shinned Hawks caught and ate a rabbit
>> kit whose ear measured 1.75" and skull, teeth to back, measured 2.5".
>> Based on fur in the neighbor's yard, it's obvious this wasn't a first. I
>> didn't realize they'd hunt mammals.
>>
>> Lynn
>>
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