[TN-Bird] ambitious sharpie
- From: Rikki Hall <sourpersimmon@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: tn-bird@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 4 Nov 2011 15:26:53 -0400
While in my backyard this afternoon, an alarm cry drew my attention to the
woods just in time to see a northern flicker burst into the yard with a
sharp-shinned hawk in close pursuit, just a foot behind. The flicker curved
back into the trees trying to lose the hawk, giving sharp cries throughout
the chase. A few seconds later they emerged down the hill with the flicker
several yards ahead. It banked up into open space and the hawked banked
away, giving up, and flew off to the west. It was a small sharpie, probably
a male, not much bigger than its intended prey.
It must have gotten cold up in the Smokies last night, because today I saw
a FOS pair of juncoes foraging on the ground and a female purple finch on a
feeder.
Rikki Hall
South Knoxville, Knox Co.
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