On Wed, 12 Nov 1997, John Shelton - ext. 4051 wrote:
> Interesting behavior from one of our resident SharpShins this morning. The
> Sharp Shin had a couple of House Sparrows trapped in a boxwood and was
> trying to flush them by stomping around on top of the bush. Finding little
> success with the stomping he plunged into one side of the bush and exploded
> out the other side in a spray of debris. The sparrows were having none of

One of the immature Cooper's Hawks (from the nest that had to be somewhere
in St John's area of Portland) did a similar thing with House Sparrows in
my laurel this summer. It sat in a cherry tree above where the House
Sparrows had hunkered down. Then it dropped down into the laurel and came
out with a house sparrow. The Coop essentially walked into the laurel and
walked out with a house sparrow. It had evidentally gotten good at this
because when I had come home from vacation, I found three House Sparrow
carcasses in generally the same spot. RK
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