Hi Tweets,

A family of four Cooper's Hawks have been observed for the last two
weeks at Rodgers Park on Queen Anne Hill. The probably nest is in an
old Blue Spruce in the middle of the park, since they seem to be
hanging out near this nest tree. The interesting thing is that the
park also has several pairs of resident crows and we have observed no
mobbing interactions between the crows and the hawks, although today a
crow did dive bomb one of the juveniles. Yesterday we watched one of
the hawks with crows sitting in the next tree with no obvious
interactions. The grey squirrel population seems to be diminishing in
the park and we wonder if the Hawks are feeding on the squirrel
babies? We wonder if they could take an adult squirrel? They do
frequent the Madrone near our feeder in the back yard, but no observed
capture of the usual birds.

Don and Sandi McVay
Seattle
dmcvay at cmc.net