{"id":549,"date":"2010-05-30T13:59:30","date_gmt":"2010-05-30T18:59:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/birdingnotes.sigridsanders.com\/?p=549"},"modified":"2010-05-31T14:01:15","modified_gmt":"2010-05-31T19:01:15","slug":"cooper%e2%80%99s-hawk-and-red-shouldered-hawk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/birdingnotes.sigridsanders.com\/?p=549","title":{"rendered":"Cooper\u2019s Hawk and Red-shouldered Hawk"},"content":{"rendered":"

In our own back yard, there seem to be babies everywhere \u2013 Bluebirds, Chipping Sparrows, Titmice, Chickadees, Robins, Brown Thrashers \u2013 all begging to be fed. A Bluebird pair seems already to be starting on a second nest. There\u2019s the song of a Red-eyed Vireo and the songs and pik-a-tuk<\/em> calls of a pair of Summer Tanagers, the WHEET-sit <\/em>calls of Acadian Flycatcher from the creek, the squeaky-dee<\/em> chatter of Brown-headed Nuthatches in the pines, the rattles and whirrs of Red-bellied and Downy Woodpeckers, and sometimes the racheting call of a Yellow-billed Cuckoo or the traveling cuk-cuk-cuk<\/em> of a Pileated Woodpecker. At least two Ruby-throated Hummingbirds, a male and female, are regular and frequent visitors to the feeder hanging from the deck.<\/p>\n

Three times recently I\u2019ve seen a Cooper\u2019s Hawk around the edge of the woods beyond our back yard. Once it tried to catch a small bird in the white oaks next to the house and failed, then swooped to a perch on a pine stub where it sat for several minutes in full view, where I could see the ruddy-streaked breast and long banded tail and proud profile.<\/p>\n

We don\u2019t see or even hear Red-shouldered Hawks as often as we used to, so I don\u2019t think there\u2019s a pair nesting nearby in the neighborhood this season. But fairly often I do hear their kee-yer<\/em> calls from somewhere in the woods to the east, so at least there are some not too far away.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In our own back yard, there seem to be babies everywhere \u2013 Bluebirds, Chipping Sparrows, Titmice, Chickadees, Robins, Brown Thrashers \u2013 all begging to be fed. A Bluebird pair seems already to be starting on a second nest. There\u2019s the song of a Red-eyed Vireo and the songs and pik-a-tuk calls of a pair of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/birdingnotes.sigridsanders.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/birdingnotes.sigridsanders.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/birdingnotes.sigridsanders.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/birdingnotes.sigridsanders.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/birdingnotes.sigridsanders.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=549"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/birdingnotes.sigridsanders.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":551,"href":"https:\/\/birdingnotes.sigridsanders.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549\/revisions\/551"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/birdingnotes.sigridsanders.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/birdingnotes.sigridsanders.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/birdingnotes.sigridsanders.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}