Hi John & Tweets:

Re: banded Cooper's Hawk
Jack Bettesworth is color-banding Cooper's Hawks and Sharp-Shinned Hawks as part of a winter site-fidelity study.
Email is jgbett AT comcast.net.
I also was able to see a peregrine from the comfort of home yesterday, with an adult female in the top of a tree at the corner that often is a perch for smaller raptors. I spotted her from my living room windows. I have been waiting to see a peregrine in that tree since moving to Ballard almost 7 years ago.

Ruth Taylor
rutht at seanet.com
-----Original Message-----
From: johntubbs at comcast.net <johntubbs at comcast.net>
To: tweeters at u.washington.edu <tweeters at u.washington.edu>
Date: Saturday, November 18, 2006 11:15 AM
Subject: [Tweeters] Backyard Raptors - Peregrine and Banded Cooper's Hawk


Hi all,

It's been a good two days, raptor-wise. Yesterday, driving home in late afternoon from Redmond to Snoqualmie on 202, I saw FIVE Red Tailed Hawks (RTHA) perch hunting just between Redmond and Fall City. This morning, at the dead top of a tall fir across the way from our backyard I saw a raptor I initially thought was a RTHA from the size. To my delight when I put the binocs and then the scope on it, it was a Peregrine Falcon, a first for the yard.

After running some errands, when I got back, there was another raptor in the same tree. This time, the scope revealed an immature Cooper's Hawk. The bird had a blue band with white markings on its right leg. Unfortunately, with the distance and the wind blowing him around a bit, I could not make out the inscription on the band - but perhaps the color of the band is of at least some help to someone reading this post.

John Tubbs
Snoqualmie, WA
johntubbs at comcast.net
www.tubbsphoto.com