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The Goshawk Strikes Again! Or maybe it was a Cooper

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upstatenybowyer:
Well Don, now I can't tell if it was an immature Gos, or a Cooper's. It was pretty big, but not even close to the one that attacked my chickens. I know we've got Coopers, but not sure about Sharp-shinned. Thanks for your insight!  8) Maybe JW will chime in...  (-P

I'm ADD too Pat. I think it's one of the reasons I went in to teaching- to try and bring a little understanding of what its like into the schools. We would have been great students 200 years ago when learning took place in the great outdoors.  )P(

Yeah Hawk, the universe came together nicely for the kids.  :)

DC:
I would suspect that it was a Coopers. A sparrow sounds like it's a little small for a Gos to catch but I've been wrong many, many times. Hunger can put a real edge on their performance and this is the time of year the juveniles get real hungry.

ohma2:
Great pics.

chamookman:
Way cool  :OK - Bob.

bjrogg:
Really cool pictures Jeff. I've got a few burned into my brain. A Chicken Hawk flying away with a chipmunk in its talons.
A redtail hawk swooping down and snatching a cottontail rabbit only to have it get away. Then snatching it two more times with the same results. The cottontail got away. It he had to be terribly wounded from the talons.
When my son was in the hospital for months and I'd watch hawks swoop down from the window ledges and snatch the rats living around the trash dumpster. Right in the middle of the city.
Bjrogg

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