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This Coopers Hawk landed on my backyard patio table. He had his eye on a terrified female grosbeak that flew into the base of my patio door. The grosbeak remained motionless, but the hawk had it's eyes on him all the time.
This is where I stepped in when he moved onto the patio and started for the small bird. The hawk stared at me but didn't flinch.
He wanted his dinner. I raised my hands and he flew to a different advantage point not loosing sight of the grosbeak.
The is the main 4x4 post and feeder where all my bird activity comes to and this hawk knows it. I chased him up into a spruce tree where he kept his eyes on me.
I picked up the paralyzed and totally frightened grosbeak and moved him to the other side of my backyard while watching his escape about 30 seconds later. I waited all year for those grosbeaks to show up and they are only present for a few days then head north I assume.
This is the neighborhood Cooper's hawk who is getting a bit hungry. It is coming to my stick and branch pile more often now trying to catch a small songbird, dove or cowbird by surprise so it can get an easy meal. So far it hasn't been successful that I know of in my yard, but perhaps in another. Meanwhile the birds continue to enjoy the seed, peanuts and pieces of fruit that they find in the pile.
In this photo, it is adjusting its stance to prepare to take flight.
Éste es el gavilán de Cooper que parece ponerse más y más hambriento porque visita el montón de ramas y palitos que les ofrezco a las aves como protección y como lugar donde pueden obtener semillas, cacahuates y trozos de fruta. Quiere atrapar un ave cantora, una paloma o un tordo de cabeza café por sorpresa para calmar su hambre. Por lo que sepa, no ha tenido éxito en mi patio, tal vez en otro.
En esta foto, ajusta su posición para prepararse a lanzarse al vuelo.
Coopers at Grimsby re-livered their N370LPN recently and it still provides good service usually out to Barton from the college. Its sister in law P145KWJ was sadly written off in a serious accident 5 days after this picture was taken.
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Swooped up the creek at Sugar Creek Metro Park while I was bent down photographing the wild flowers. Looked at me when the camera clicked but seemed unconcerned. A wonderful day to be in the woods.
A first time visitor to the backyard, this juvenile Cooper's Hawk was quite the sight as it swept into the yard today, scattering all the songbirds and sparrows.
Five days after fledging, (previous photos), the young hawk's tail feathers have grown and now peek below the bottom of the branch.
He has also been introduced to the relentless attacks by various passerines. In this photo, a blue-gray gnatcatcher strafes the young hawk in a futile attempt to move the hawk along.
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This Cooper's Hawk made a fly by at the feeders at the Great Blue Heron Nature Reserve. It did not get any lunch that time but all my photo subjects fled.
Star Racing Yamaha's Justin Cooper going through the first turn during the parade lap before 250cc Moto 1 at the Spring Creek AMA National Motocross event in Millville, Minnesota on July 16, 2022
This car competed in the HGPCA Sports Car Race at the Christie’s International Historic Festival meeting at Silverstone in July 1992. It's the 1956 Cooper T39 of John Beasley, more commonly known as the Cooper Bobtail because of the truncated tail of the car which was aerodynamically effective, but which John Cooper claimed to have been shortened so that it would fit inside the works transporter. The car was used in the 1,100cc and 1,500cc classes of sportscar racing and this car has a 4-cylinder inline 1,460cc Coventry Climax engine. It was reputedly the road-holding characteristics of this car that led John Cooper to produce first the rear-engined 1½ litre Formula 2 car and then the 2½ litre Formula 1 car that gave Jack Brabham the World Drivers' Championship in 1959 and 1960. Cooper's successes led all the other teams to adopt the rear-engine layout, and the last Formula 1 Grand Prix to be won by a front-engined car was Ferrari's victory in the 1960 Italian Grand Prix.
Cooper's hawks prey mostly on smaller birds, so with mixed feelings I observed a pair build a nest in the woods where I walk every morning. But they're beautiful creatures in their own way. They are masters of ambush, flying through dense branches to capture their food. I read that their wings often show healed fractures from colliding with branches. The pair disappeared one day without raising a brood as far as I could tell, so maybe blue jays and crows drove them away.
A Cooper's Hawk (Accipiter cooperii) has just been flushed from hiding in a thicket of branches by a group of squirrels. Photographed on November 10, 2019 in Coconut Creek, Florida.
Yes, Cooper is alive and well as attested by this photo taken today. Many were surprised, scared, shocked.... when they saw a picture of Cooper as a road kill. Of course it was all theatre and just an idea to keep the 52 weeks of dogs fresh and fun.
We went back today to the same bridge (no comments please Richard) to show my friends that I am very much alive and still participating in the challenge. But don't worry, I won't jump Until next week.
This one is actually from a couple of years ago. Just happened to see one of the other shots from the series on my desktop and went back to look at them and decided this one was fun.
Our creative group works in a 100-year old renovated church. One of our favorite employees is Cooper. These photos were taken for a local feature on "downtown office dogs."
This juvenile Cooper's Hawk placed himself perfectly in the beam of light coming down through the tree.
I was alerted to this pair after hearing a loud, grating cak-cak-cak call.
Lemoine Point, Kingston Ontario
A large transformer bank outside a business in this western South Dakota town. Those transformers have got to be old substation units! They probably figured the transformers could just as efficiently step 2400V down to 240V as they did 24kV to 2400V!
Also interesting to see is the load is metered on the primary side, and the coop even marked the rating of the instrument transformers in the cabinet!
West Central had to take over a small investor-owned system in its territory as a condition of getting their REA loan, and continue to operate 2400V distribution in these towns even though their rural distribution lines are 24.9kV.