[TN-Bird] Re: TN-Bird] Take 2 :Hawk ID Question

From: "Kristy L. Baker" <kristybaker@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: TenacBirder@xxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Tue, 23 Sep 2014 20:05:49 -0500
Hello - 

I honestly don't recall the bird flapping, so I cannot answer your question.  
The hawk was not in view long, and it just seemed like one fluid move.  This is 
why I really think the hawk's back was facing me although I tried to convince 
myself differently. Otherwise the bird would have had to turn around on its way 
back up to go up and over/into the trees.

As an additional note, if I were to walk the woods at the back of the property, 
it would take about 10 minutes to exit the woods into farm fields.  

We heard juvenile Red-tailed hawks toward the back of the property this summer. 
 We also have Cooper Hawk visits.  So, the suggestions of others are quite 
plausible.   Although...the bird had a long/narrow tail.  That would likely 
rule out Red-tailed.  Based on suggestions, this leads back to the Cooper's or 
Harrier, right?

I wish I could share more.  

Kristy Baker



TenacBirder@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
>
>Kristy;
>
>From the information you submitted I am leaning toward a
>tentative identification for Cooper's Hawk.  Since you have
>described this raptor as a large hawk I would tend to lean
>toward a female bird.
>
>Could you add more information about the flight cadence?  Did
>this hawk flap slow to medium paced, or fast, or did you happen
>to notice the bird leaning left as it flapped then immediately
>leaning right to flap and repeat the left and right movements?
>
>I would be interested to know.
>
>Jimmy Wilkerson
>Hixson, Hamilton Co., TN
>
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: Kristy L Baker <kristybaker@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>To: TN-Bird <tn-bird@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>Sent: Tue, 23 Sep 2014 11:31:45 -0000 (UTC)
>Subject: [TN-Bird] Take 2 :Hawk ID Question
>
> Sunday afternoon I was watching birds from the porch again.  I heard a jay 
> scolding back into the woods.  Soon other jays followed along with a lot of 
> other very agitated birds.  About 10 minutes later a large hawk swooped from 
> the woods, along the fence line and back up.  It was a large hawk, brownish 
> with a white rump patch.  I thought Northern Harrier and dismissed it. I then 
> told myself I must have seen the front of the hawk and assumed it was a large 
> Cooper's Hawk.  
>
>I was reviewing some of my eBird listings and see that I recorded a Northern 
>Harrier a couple of Januarys ago at the house.  I had forgotten all about it, 
>but I recall it as flying low over the trees. 
>
>We have just under 2.5 acres at the back of a rural subdivision.  Two sides of 
>the property are along the woods with a large portion of the  property in 
>grass.  Is it possible I seen a Northern Harrier?  It just doesn't feel like I 
>should have.  Any other bird with a white rump that it could have been?
>
>Kristy Baker
>Rockvale TN
>Rutherford Count
[TN-Bird] Re: TN-Bird] Take 2 :Hawk ID Question

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