Subject: [Tweeters] Strange encounter in Fremont
Date: Mar 18 18:19:40 2014
From: Kelly McAllister - mcallisters4 at comcast.net


I'll guess that it's a Cooper's Hawk, based primarily on fairly robust legs
and the shape of the folded tail feathers (if I was going by the look of the
eye, somewhat soft and friendly, I would guess sharp-shinned hawk).
Pigeon-sized would still work for a Cooper's Hawk, particularly a male.



Kelly McAllister

Olympia, Washington



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Schwitters
Sent: Tuesday, March 18, 2014 12:42 PM
To: Steve Loitz
Cc: TWEETERS; kptrease at gmail.com
Subject: Re: [Tweeters] Strange encounter in Fremont



Wonder who put the bands on it.



Larry Schwitters

Issaquah

On Mar 18, 2014, at 12:23 PM, Steve Loitz wrote:





male Cooper's Hawk is my guess



On Tue, Mar 18, 2014 at 12:20 PM, Kenneth Trease <kptrease at gmail.com> wrote:

I was riding my bike home from work yesterday, through Fremont, when I
flushed what I initially thought was a pigeon, scuffling around in the dirt
right beside the sidewalk. It flew up, and I thought "that's not a pigeon!
That's a hawk!" I nearly fell off my bike, I was so surprised. This is at
the corner of Stone Way and 34th Ave N in Seattle, if you know the
neighborhood - really not close to any parks or woodland.

I threw down my bike and managed to get out my camera, which I just happened
to have with me. I also happened to have my zoom lens attached. The bird was
in a tree, so close that I had to back up, to get all of it in the frame.



So, I'm pretty sure this is either a Cooper's Hawk or a Sharp-Shinned Hawk.
It's got a rounded tail, like a Cooper's should. But, it was small (I
initially mistook it for a pigeon, remember), and the rounded head shape and
lack of a lighter patch on just behind the bill make me think Sharp-Shinned
(I'm looking at Peterson's for comparison. I was in the new Sibley's last
night, and it wasn't helping.)



Any ideas as to what I could look at to help narrow this down? I've got the
best pics up at flickr:

https://www.flickr.com/photos/kptrease/13249133815/



-k


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