A couple of summers ago I spent a lazy summer afternoon hiking around Bob
Heirman park. I decided to explore out to the end of the large grassy field
to the east and was following a deer trail when I spooked up a pair of
goldfinches, maybe from a nest in the nearby shrubbery. They took off low
over the grass with that undulating flight and a coopers hawk came zooming
in, full throtle after them. They split up and then as the hawk got closer,
just dove into the tall grass and dissapeared! The hawk soared overhead a
couple of passes then gave up and flew away. I never thought that a bright
yellow bird would ever consider hiding as a predator avoidance strategy!


Rob Sandelin
Naturalist, Writer
The Environmental Science School
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