Cooper's Hawks in University of Miami Gifford Arboretum

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: : Last Monday while walking through the Gifford : Arboretum on the University of Miami campus(on my : way to a reception after the Biology Department's weekly seninar) I heard an unfamiliar bird call. : I was not able to locate the bird, but at the reception Colin Hughes(one of the ornithologists in the UM Biology Department) asked me if I had seen the pair of Cooper's Hawks that he believes are trying to nest in the arboretum. He pointed out the nest that he thinks they are trying to use. In my 38 and 1/2 years of birding in south Florida I had never heard of a Cooper's Hawk nesting(or heard one), but after the talk I saw one of the birds and again heard the call. I checked the on-line Florida breeding Bird Atlas, : and there are no nesting records south of Lake : Ockeechobee. : The "nest" is in a Sandbox tree near the rock half circle just off San Amaro Drive. This is behind the Cox Science Building and the Knight Physics Building. It is on the edge of a restricted parking lot. : I regularly see wintering Sharp-shinned hawks : on campus and in nearby residential areas, but the : bird that I saw was definitely a Cooper's Hawk. : Bob Kelley : RKelley@math.miami.edu : 305-666-9246(H) 305-284-4747(O)

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