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Originally Posted by PSM
That looks dead on, TS. In flight, though, they have pointed wingtips instead of the feathered tips like hawks. I've been trying to identify it by "voice" but they are very quiet.
Our backdoor neighbor does have a feeder. Last year I saw one snatch a sparrow, in flight, that had just finished dinning on the free seed. The biggest change in recent years is that we have squirrels now.
Pat
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Thought so..... feeders work both ways, they feed the prey the hawks eat...
When that feeder goes so will he. If you want to keep him around set up another feeder in an "open" area where he has a clear attack path to the feeder....
Also, go and look for a nest up high in your trees, if he's around all the time he probably lives close by. (I know all this because we used to have a family of Coopers nesting in our yard (South Carolina))
Falcons have the pointed wing tips, real pointed tips. Built for speed and the fasest flying animal on the planet(Peregrine Falcon). The Coopers wing tips can fool one sometimes. Like Peregrine Falcon's the Coopers eat birds and need to be fast but their attack usually comes as the birds are sitting or close to flight. The Peregrine Falcon will take birds from the air at any given time. Its the cheetah in the air.