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Date: 6/6/25 1:56 pm From: Allen Chartier <amazilia3...> Subject: Re: [birders] Sharp Shinned Hawks |
I heard it hit the ground and keep running.
Allen T. Chartier
Inkster, Michigan
Email: <amazilia3...>
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On Fri, Jun 6, 2025, 9:26 AM Fred Kaluza <fkaluza...> wrote:
> Do you think the squirrel died from being gripped in the talons or the
> fall? I’m actually surprised it didn’t hit the ground and just keep
> running.
> ------------------------------
> *From:* Allen Chartier <amazilia3...>
> *Sent:* Friday, June 6, 2025 6:32:52 AM
> *To:* Mag Tait <magtait1...>
> *Cc:* April Deborah Campbell <adc14...>; <plynkny...> <
> <plynkny...>; Janet Hinshaw <jhinshaw...>; BIRDERS@UMICH <
> <birders...>
> *Subject:* Re: [birders] Sharp Shinned Hawks
>
> She immediately flew back to the nest and didn't try to retrieve the
> squirrel.
>
> Allen T. Chartier
> Inkster, Michigan
> Email: <amazilia3...>
> Photos: http://www.flickr.com/photos/mihummingbirdguy/collections/
> Website/Blog: http://mihummingbirdguy.blogspot.com/
>
> 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.
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> 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
> Email: <amazilia3...>
> Photos: http://www.flickr.com/photos/mihummingbirdguy/collections/
> Website/Blog: http://mihummingbirdguy.blogspot.com/
>
>
> 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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