Subject: Not only tough time for feeder birds but what about Robins?
Date: Jan 27 18:40:05 2002
From: Jack Kintner - kintner at nas.com



We had a Cooper's around most of last winter, but have yet to see him this year. We put out mass quantities of seed today, tried to feed raisins to the robins but....any ideas?
At 05:01 PM 1/27/02 -0800, you wrote:
>Tough enough for the feeder birds with the snow. But an increase in accipiter activity is occurring as well.
>I have seen an adult Coopers hawk and juvenile (prob female) sharpshin at our feeders over the past two days.
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>Coopers are rare at feeders, at least mine, so it was pretty exciting to see such a large bird.
>Jerry Eisner

Jack Kintner <kintner at nas.com> Blaine, WA