Subject: [Tweeters] juvenile hawk, north Seattle
Date: Feb 22 13:29:23 2014
From: Jeanie Taylor - jtaylorgardening at gmail.com


As I drove up to my house north of Greenlake around 4:30 pm yesterday I saw
this bird sitting on a wire over the street. I rushed over with my cell
phone and took a mediocre picture against the sky (link below). It looked
like a rumpled juvenile hawk.

It crashed down into a shrub, presumably chasing a bird, and I got a pretty
close view from the sidewalk, but was too absorbed in looking at it to take
a second photo. It seemed not to care much that there were two people
ogling it.

The back was brown, small head; bars on the long tail visible from the
front and the back, dark streaks on the very light breast. It was smallish,
skinny, and as I say, rumpled. Photos here:
http://wp.me/p4nfm4-6

We had a Cooper's hawk last year chasing songbirds through the shrubbery,
but when I compare the picture of a Cooper's and a Sharp Shinned, it's
unclear to me which it might be.

Jeanie Taylor

Taylor Gardens
Taylorgardensnw.com
Gophervalleyjrnl.wordpress.com
Pinterest photos here <http://pinterest.com/njtay/>
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