It seems there are two Coopers Hawks in our back yard.
This has driven most of the small birds away from our feeders. I guess the Hawks will leave once they see that there aren’t many birds for them to prey on.
A friend in town also tells of two hawks in his back yard.
I wonder if these hawks are here because they are young and stupid (unafraid of people) or is their natural habitat being destroyed, driving them to our backyards.
I’d like to know what you think.
Thanks,
Frank
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August 2, 2007 at 9:07 pm
mon@rch
Such an amazing shot of this hawk! It is always fun having them around in the back yard!
August 3, 2007 at 8:00 am
frankwinters
Thanks Monarch! Do you see hawks in your back yard? Tell me about them if you do….
August 4, 2007 at 4:56 pm
Howard Gebeaux
This is way out of place. Sorry. But it’s been a while since I’ve been able to check your blog. In the process today, I noticed a couple pictures of your tent set up to sell your work. I also have a tent I use for our area festivals. I noticed in yours that you use barbell weights to weigh down the corners. I just got the same for mine, so it was interesting to see someone else doing the same thing.
But I hang mine from the top. It looked as if you connected your weights to the poles. Could you explain just where and how you do that? It looks like yours would work better than the way I have mine set up.
Thanks.
Howard
hgebeaux@yahoo.com
October 9, 2007 at 2:51 pm
dogslol
wow. it’s so sad that we are destroying so many natural habitats.
March 7, 2008 at 5:58 pm
melissa
this is such a great pic of this amazing bird, my family believes that the hawk resembals my great gradfater, so i set this pic as my backround <3 i love it
March 8, 2008 at 6:21 pm
frankwinters
Thanks Melissa,
People keep coming to this blog entry — and another one with a hawk. I guess people like hawks?
I can imagine that my photo looks like you grandfather — it was shot with not great lighting at a not great angle with branches in the way. I’m surprised it even looks a little like a hawk!
Many thanks for your expression of love for my photo — enjoy it on your computer!
Peace,
Frank
March 14, 2008 at 8:21 pm
bill
hi frank i also have a coopers hawk in my backyard. i still have birds at my feeder but they take off at the first sighn of the hawki also have a great picture of the coopers hawk i wish i could send you have a good day
February 28, 2009 at 6:26 pm
jean
This looks like the hawk that comes to my yard. I have several feeders in my yard. I get many small birds. Most likely it is an easy way to find food. I wish they would stick to mice. Still they do facinate me. jean
March 10, 2009 at 5:33 pm
Kyle
I also have had a hawk in my yard, especially around my feeder. I live across from conservation land so I figured that was why it was here. I’m not sure mine was the same type of hawk; I’ve been trying to figure that out. Actually, that’s how I came across your pic to begin with. I think mine might have been a red-shouldered or red-tailed hawk?
March 10, 2009 at 7:50 pm
Charles Nathan Dickens
I watch hawks all the time and they stop to rest in peaceful place’s .I have a lot of indain firends that have taught many things.
May 15, 2009 at 9:49 am
goddesspower978
I’m so glad I found your blog! I was looking up hawks this morning. I have two in my backyard that look very much like your picture. I was opening a window, and a huge one swooped into an above tree and sat there. It was brown, with a light underbelly. And large. Much bigger than a crow.
Love, Goddess
May 15, 2009 at 11:55 am
frankwinters
Great to have a Goddess post a comment — many thanks! Hawks are dumb when they are very young. They don’t know danger and seem to have no fear. So they come close to people. I hope we get some more juveniles in our back yard this year — it makes for great photo ops!
July 3, 2009 at 2:28 pm
Barbara Dooley
My grandson (grown grandson, that is) and I had an exciting bird episode yesterday. Looking out our back window, I saw a flurry of BIG wings. Went over to it, and there was a Cooper’s Hawk clinging to the windowsill. On the ground beneath it was another one, over and over pulling with its beak at the landscaping cloth in the flower bed beneath the window. It never managed to tear the cloth, and I wonder what it would have done with it if it had. Today they are both here again and have perched for ages (so I can get a great look) in the branches of a tree. No birds were at the feeders–not surprising, but there was a little squirrel on the ground. One of the hawks swooped down and over to it, but it was fast and got away on a railing. I think the hawk didn’t have very good aim!
October 17, 2009 at 9:14 pm
Veeramahal franklin
We had the same experience with Hawks nesting in our neighborhood, last summer (2008). You can read all about it on my blog. I have seen them swoop down across our yard at dusk, this summer but no sign of nesting. They probably could not live in the same area for too long for obvious reasons. I am glad the doves are back, visiting my bird bath!
Veeramahal Franklin