Hi All,

But first this important announcement from your local YardBirdRace: Carolyn Eagan of Squamish is aleady at 44 species this year, holding the overall lead among early-reporters and of course the lead for Jefferson County.


? On the way out of the Home Depot store on 4th South at Sodo, I noticed a juvenile likely-male Coopers Hawk sitting on a pole about 15 feet above the ground, ignoring the pedestrians and cars right underneath it. ?It reminded me that this winter season there has been a regular Coopers Hawk, a probable female, hunting the Pike Place Market area ?(I videotaped that bird eating a pigeon on an awning 5 ft. above pedestrians). ?Also this winter I witnessed a Coopers Hawk flying up right over traffic with a House Sparrow on 2nd Ave by the foodbank. ?
? It seems to me that at least as far as winter residency and at least here in Seattle, it can be said that the Coopers Hawk is fully urbanized. ?Perhaps it?s always been so, I could be completely wrong, but in the 80s and 90s I was under the impression, backed up by some haphazard data that I kept, that the two falcons were urbanized but neither of the common accipiters were very at home in the city and tended to be seen mostly winging overhead headed for somewhere else. ?Any rebuttals out there (?)--Christmas count data might be able to demolish ideas like these.

? ?In this ame vein, I predict that in the 20-teens we?ll experience the colonization of the city by Ravens which may now be moving against resistance from crows north from just barely south of Tacoma and south from Snohomish County (although this also may be my imagination), as well as the increasing urbanization of the Bald Eagle.

Ed Newbold, residential Beacon Hill, where an overhead Peregrine made it on to the yardlist yesterday newboldwildlife at netscape.net





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