[TN-Bird] Re: Take 2 :Hawk ID Question
- From: TenacBirder@xxxxxxxxxxx
- To: kristybaker@xxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2014 00:01:56 +0000 (UTC)
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
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