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Posted by Roger Hammer on 10:19:47 02/26/08
A pair of Cooper's hawks in my (and my neighbor's) yard are displaying nesting activity. The birds call back and forth to each other, especially in the morning, and both are gathering sticks, sometimes breaking off live twigs from trees. My neighbor, ornitholigist John Ogden, has been seeing them with sticks perched in the canopy of a royal palm in his yard, and I've seen them together carrying sticks in a large short-leaf fig in my yard.
Apparently there are no records of Cooper's hawks nesting south of Lake Okeechobee. There are two other pairs of Cooper's hawks in South Florida (Broward and Key Largo) that are displaying nesting activity as well. Look out Eurasian collared-doves! The good news too is that they either ran off, or killed, the Sharp-shinned hawk that was terrorizing the painted buntings in our feeders.
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