Date: 2/19/26 8:31 am From: 'John Gannon' via Birders <birders...> Subject: Re: [birders] Cooper's
We lived in Dexter Twp for 34 years, and always had bird feeders. Had both sharp-shinned and Cooper’s hawks occasionally be successful preying on birds on or near feeders. Yes, the hawks have to eat too, and they miss many times more than they are successful based on my experience. JohnMullett TwpCheboygan County
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On Thursday, February 19, 2026, 9:54 AM, 'Kathy McDonald' via Birders <birders...> wrote:
We had this successful dove hunt at our feeder last week.
Kathy McDonald
> On Feb 19, 2026, at 9:43 AM, Mag Tait <magtait1...> wrote:
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> Great picture!
> We have Cooper’s in the area, but I’ve only seen one be successful at my feeder ever.
> I have a neighbor with a more open area around his feeder where a Cooper’s hangs out a lot. He actually put a plastic fence around the bottom of his yews that the feeder birds can pass through to eat ground feed or get away from the Cooper’s with some success.
> Those hawks have to eat, too, just not our birds!
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>> On Feb 19, 2026, at 8:27 AM, Dody Wyman <dody...> wrote:
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>> We have lived here for 40 years and this is the first year that we’ve had a pair of cooper’s hawks literally hanging around and on our feeders. And hunted successfully.
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>> We’ve had them nesting in the general area and we see/hear them, but this is the first time they (one at a time) have used our feeders as a regular feeding station.
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>> I was under the impression that all of the songbird eyes and ears at a feeding station kept the predators away.
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