From [[email protected]] Thu Oct 3 20:00:47 2002 Received: from www.plaidworks.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by plaidworks.com (8.12.2/8.12.2) with ESMTP id g9430lkx001899; Thu, 3 Oct 2002 20:00:47 -0700 (PDT) Received: from plaidworks.com (dsl081-078-186.sfo1.dsl.speakeasy.net [64.81.78.186]) by plaidworks.com (8.12.2/8.12.2) with ESMTP id g942x1kw001719 for <[[email protected]]>; Thu, 3 Oct 2002 19:59:02 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 3 Oct 2002 19:58:58 -0700 Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v546) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed From: Chuq Von Rospach <[[email protected]]> To: [[email protected]] Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <[[email protected]]> X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.546) Subject: [SBB] cooper's hawk X-BeenThere: [[email protected]] X-Mailman-Version: 2.1b3+ Precedence: list List-Unsubscribe: , List-Id: South Bay Birding List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: [[email protected]] Errors-To: [[email protected]] Would it be likely to have a cooper's hawk wandering through Santa Clara this time of year? A couple of days ago (as I was waiting for the guy to come fix our computer network) I was working in the office when I had a moderate sized hawk stoop the bird feeder in the back yard. He didn't catch anything, but amusingly enough, he saw one of the feral cats that hangs out back there sunning herself and went and swatted at her, too (to HER surprise) before almost faceplanting the side of the house and doing an emergency climb up and out of sight. Because of this, what I saw was mostly a good but brief look at the underside of the tail. Looking through a couple of my books, the tail seems most like a Coopers and the size is about right, but I'm not convinced. I wish I'd gotten a better look (but I'm just happy it didn't faceplant. that would have taken some explaining at wildlife rescue....) -- Chuq Von Rospach, Architech [[email protected]] -- http://www.chuqui.com/ Yes, I am an agent of Satan, but my duties are largely ceremonial. _______________________________________________ Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored. south-bay-birds mailing list [[email protected]] http://plaidworks.com/mailman/listinfo/south-bay-birds