Greensboro Birds

Ending the year on a predatory note with this Cooper’s Hawk. Checking email this morning was interrupted when the hawk casually flapped onto the brush pile outside my office window. Moments earlier, the area was abuzz with dozens of birds pecking at a big corn log thing I had set out for the squirrels. The [...]

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I feel like maybe I should put a question mark over this ID, because my hawk skills are not stellar, but the relatively small size (but larger than a Sharpie), tail length and shape, and markings indicate that this is a juvenile Cooper’s Hawk. Please correct me if I’m wrong. Blue Jays were streaming into [...]

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It’s Murphy’s Law of birding: Go out on a gorgeous spring day without your camera and you’ll have one helluva fabulous sighting. Today, the young Happy and I were tooling past the fenced-in pond by the Natural History Museum. Not 10 feet above us, perched on the wooden fence in clear, golden sunshine was the [...]

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Took Happy out this morning and heard a pair of Cooper’s Hawks calling back and forth. One was flying over Lincoln Green, pestered by Crows and Jays the whole time; the other was across the street in a tree near the park’s parking lot. Happy and I followed the Cooper’s screaming to the national park [...]

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