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My Latest Record Column: Hawks and Feeders
My latest "Bird Watcher" column in The Record and Herald News is on simple ways you can reduce hawk attacks at your feeders — providing some cover to reducing the likelihood of birds flying into your windows.
The link is here.
At right, my backyard Cooper's Hawk.
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That is why they are called BIRD FEEDERS !
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Is it wrong to hope for hawk attacks at feeders? I have witnessed an house sparrow grabbed by a Juv. coopers. The way the hawk hopped and dove through the forsythia and arborvitae was something to wittness, it just disappeared an out it popped with a sparrow in the talons.
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To be honest, I wouldn’t mind a good action shot of a hawk attack or decrease in the house sparrow population…
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Don
That is why they are called BIRD FEEDERS !
Scott
Is it wrong to hope for hawk attacks at feeders? I have witnessed an house sparrow grabbed by a Juv. coopers. The way the hawk hopped and dove through the forsythia and arborvitae was something to wittness, it just disappeared an out it popped with a sparrow in the talons.
Patrick Carney
To be honest, I wouldn’t mind a good action shot of a hawk attack or decrease in the house sparrow population…