[TN-Bird] Re: Take 2 :Hawk ID Question
- From: "Chloe Walker" <dmarc-noreply@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> (Redacted sender "chloebelle119@xxxxxxxxx" for DMARC)
- To: "tn-bird@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <tn-bird@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 23 Sep 2014 16:25:46 -0700
I've observed Cooper's Hawks in the past with their white undertail coverts
"fluffed" (for lack of a better word) - almost appearing to have a fully white
rump. I know I read somewhere (not sure where though...) that they do this
either as a breeding display, or as a sign of defense or alarm.
Chloe Walker
Murfreesboro, TN
http://www.chloesbirdingblog.blogspot.com/
On Tuesday, September 23, 2014 11:47 AM, Bill Pulliam <littlezz@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
Young Red-tails can have a fairly prominent white base to their brown, barred
tails.
We live in a mixed forest and open rural area. Harriers in migration will show
up overhead, and sometimes low to the ground near the edges of the woods.
Bill Pulliam
Hohenwald TN
On Sep 23, 2014, at 11:27 AM, Ford, Robert wrote:
Yep, harrier is a bird of field and marsh . . .thought I would share an
interesting past observation though. A few years ago I was in the field, and
on 2 occasions in late winter/early spring, I flushed a harrier out of a small
grassy patch in a small opening in thick forest a little before sunrise. I
assumed roosting there, maybe in migration. But that's not to be "expected".
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>Bob Ford
>Haywood County, TN
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>On Tue, Sep 23, 2014 at 11:18 AM, Chris Sloan <csloan1973@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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>A harrier is possible this time of year. They are migrating now and certainly
>should be passing through Tennessee. That said, harriers are field and marsh
>birds, not forest birds, so if it came out of the forest it is unlikely to
>have been harrier. If it truly had a white rump, then harrier is really the
>only option because it is the only raptor found here with a white rump. If
>it's possible that you just saw it from the side and maybe saw white undertail
>or vent, then more likely it was something else.
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>>Chris Sloan
>>Nashville, TN
>>http://www.chrissloanphotography.com/
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>>On Tue, Sep 23, 2014 at 6:31 AM, Kristy L Baker <kristybaker@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>>wrote:
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>>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.
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>>>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.
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>>>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?
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>>>
>>>Kristy Baker
>>>Rockvale TN
>>>Rutherford Count
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