Subject: [Tweeters] Northern Goshawk?
Date: Feb 23 13:25:48 2014
From: Chazz Hesselein - chazz at hesselein.com


I took a look at the photos in the below link and believe the bird in
the photos is a Northern Goshawk not a Cooper's or Sharp-shinned. The
reasons I believe it is a NOGO are: 1) bright white supercillium (most
evident in an enlarged view of the left photo) and 2) wavy, uneven tail
bars. Any other thoughts or confirmation?

Chazz Hesselein
Port Orchard, WA

On 2/23/2014 12:01 PM, tweeters-request at mailman1.u.washington.edu wrote:
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> Date: Sat, 22 Feb 2014 13:29:23 -0800
> From: Jeanie Taylor<jtaylorgardening at gmail.com>
> Subject: [Tweeters] juvenile hawk, north Seattle
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> 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/>