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Coopers Tours SIL7764 is a Leyland Tiger with Plaxton Derwent bodywork. Seen at Meadowhall, SIL7764 was new as 03-KJ-42 to the MOD, and then became G746FTW.
I was cooking some breakfast for dinner tonight and had a sausage patty in the pan. I got caught up with the eggs and next thing I know, I've got slightly smoking sausage. Our smoke detector is super sensitive, so in an effort to avoid setting it off, I went to open the patio door to get some ventilation going. I see the silhouette of a bird on our fence, which isn't rare considering I have a bunch of feeders out there. It actually took a second for me to realize the silhouette was about 20 times bigger than the usual House Sparrow's. I did a double take and realized I was staring down a Cooper's Hawk. I slowly backed away from the window and ran like a madman to get my camera, which was all the way in our bedroom. I kept saying to myself "Please still be there, please still be there" the whole time I was getting my camera ready.
I went back to our patio door and shot through our dirty screen door before I decided to get brave and open it for a clearer view. The hawk stayed. I got a few shots off before my cat spied the open door and nonchalantly sauntered outside. The hawk still stayed in place, splitting his time between watching me, the camera, and the cat. I shot off about 35-40 frames before the cat got too close and he flew off. I closed the door and went back to my nearly-on-fire-by-now sausage. I got it off the pan and went back to open the patio door to let all the smoke out. As I open the door, I see a flash fly off in front of the fence. He had come back almost immediately after I left the first time, this time to my neighbor's patio.
Hopefully I'll see more of him in the near future. I can only assume he's preying on our Sparrows and House Finches.
This car took part in the Bonhams Drum Brake Sports Cars [HGPCA] race at the Gold Cup meeting at Oulton Park in August 2003. It's the 1956 Cooper T39 of George Cooper, 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 1,450cc 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.
An immature male Cooper's Hawk hunting Red-breasted Nuthatches in moorecroft Regional Park.
August 19, 2016
I went to the wetlands yesterday against my better judgement...since it was New Year's Day and it was almost 80 degrees here in So. Cal., and sure enough, there were a ton of people out and about. I notice that a lot of the shy birds are not around when a lot of people are out. Anyway, I digress...I discovered yet another trail at the wetlands that seemed fairly deserted and decided to check it out. As I walked along the trail, I noticed a couple of photographers set up with their tripods looking at something in a tree. As I got closer, I could see a large bird in one of the trees. I quietly asked what it was, since I am not that familiar with raptors, and was told it was a Cooper's Hawk (thank you!). My first Cooper's Hawk! It was very exciting and what a cool bird! I also saw a couple of Osprey up on this trail....must be "Raptor Ridge" trail.
Italian postcard by Fotocelere no. 12. Photo: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Jackie Cooper in The Champ (King Vidor, 1931). Collection: Marlene Pilaete.
American actor, television director, producer, and executive Jackie Cooper (1922-2011) was one of the most popular child stars of the 1930s. He is also the youngest performer to have been nominated for an Oscar for Best Actor in a Leading Role, for Skippy (1931). He was one of the few child actors who managed to make the transition to an adult career. In later life, he produced and directed over 250 films and television shows.
Jackie Cooper was born as John Cooper Jr. in 1922 in Los Angeles, California. Cooper's father, John Cooper, left the family when Jackie was 2 years old. The two never reunited after he had left the family. His mother, Mabel Leonard Bigelow (née Polito), was a stage pianist. Cooper's maternal uncle, Jack Leonard, was a screenwriter and his maternal aunt, Julie Leonard, was an actress married to director Norman Taurog. Cooper's stepfather was C.J. Bigelow, a studio production manager. Cooper first appeared in films as an extra with his grandmother, who took him to her auditions hoping it would help her get extra work. At age 3 Jackie appeared in Lloyd Hamilton comedies under the name of "Leonard". Cooper graduated to bit parts in feature films such as Fox Movietone Follies of 1929 (David Butler, 1929) and Sunny Side Up (David Butler, 1929) with Janet Gaynor. His director in those films, David Butler, recommended Cooper to director Leo McCarey, who arranged an audition for the Our Gang comedy series produced by Hal Roach. In 1929, Cooper signed a three-year contract after joining the series in the short Boxing Gloves (Robert A. McGowan, 1929). He initially was to be a supporting character in the series, but by early 1930 his success in transitioning to sound films enabled him to become one of Our Gang's major characters. He was the main character in the episodes The First Seven Years (Robert A. McGowan, 1930) and When the Wind Blows (James W. Horne, 1930). His most notable Our Gang shorts explore his crush on Miss Crabtree, the schoolteacher played by June Marlowe: Teacher's Pet (Robert A. McGowan, 1930), School's Out (Robert A. McGowan, 1930), and Love Business (Robert A. McGowan, 1930). In 1931, while under contract to Hal Roach Studios, Jackie Cooper was loaned to Paramount to star in Skippy (1931) , directed by his uncle, Norman Taurog. At age 9, Cooper was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actor, the youngest actor to be nominated for such an Oscar. Although Paramount paid Roach $25,000 for Cooper's services, Roach paid Cooper a standard salary of $50 per week. Our Gang producer Hal Roach sold Jackie's contract to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in 1931. Cooper acted with Wallace Beery in The Champ (King Vidor, 1931), The Bowery (Raoul Walsh, 1933), Treasure Island (Victor Fleming, 1934), and O'Shaughnessy's Boy (Richard Boleslawski, 1935). In his autobiography, Cooper wrote that Beery was a disappointment and accused Beery of upstaging him and attempting to undermine his performances out of jealousy. Cooper played the title role in the first two Henry Aldrich films, What a Life (Theodore Reed, 1939) and Life with Henry (Theodore Reed, 1941). Cooper served in the U.S. Navy during World War II, remaining in the reserves until 1982, retiring at the rank of captain and receiving the Legion of Merit.
After the war, Jackie Cooper starred in two television sitcoms, The People's Choice (1955-1958) with Patricia Breslin and Hennesey (1959-1962) with Abby Dalton. In 1954, he guest-starred on the legal drama Justice. In 1950, Cooper was cast in a production of 'Mr. Roberts' in Boston, Massachusetts in the role of Ensign Pulver. From 1964 to 1969, Cooper was vice president of program development at Columbia Pictures Screen Gems TV division. He was responsible for packaging series such as Bewitched and selling them to the networks. In 1964, Cooper appeared in Rod Serling's The Twilight Zone episode Caesar and Me, and in the made-for-television film Shadow on the Land (Richard C. Sarafian, 1968). Cooper left Columbia in 1969. He appeared in the fourth season of Hawaii Five-O in an episode called The Burning Ice (1971, in Candidate for Crime (1973) starring Peter Falk as Columbo, and in the series Mobile One (1975). Cooper’s work as director on episodes of M*A*S*H and The White Shadow earned him Emmy awards. In the 1970s and 1980s, Cooper appeared as Daily Planet editor Perry White in the Superman film series, Superman (Richard Donner, 1978), Superman II (Richard Lester, 1980), Superman III (Richard Lester, 1983), and Superman IV: The Quest for Peace (Sidney J. Furie, 1987). He got the role after Keenan Wynn, who was originally cast as White, became unavailable after suffering a heart attack. Cooper's final film role was as Ace Morgan in the Surrender (Jerry Belson, 1987), starring Sally Field, Michael Caine, and Steve Guttenberg. Cooper announced his retirement in 1989, although he continued directing episodes of the syndicated series Superboy. He began spending more time training and racing horses at Hollywood Park and outside San Diego during the Del Mar racing season. Cooper lived in Beverly Hills from 1955 until his death. Cooper's autobiography, 'Please Don't Shoot My Dog', was published in 1982. The title refers to an incident during the filming of Skippy, when Norman Taurog, who was directing Cooper in a crying scene, ordered a security guard to take away his dog and pretend to shoot him backstage. The stunt resulted in genuine tears; however, even upon discovering his dog was fine, Cooper was left with ill feelings toward his uncle. For his contributions to the motion picture industry, Cooper was honored with a Hollywood Walk of Fame star located at 1507 Vine Street. Cooper died in 2011 from natural causes, in Santa Monica, California. He was survived by his two sons. He was interred at Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Virginia, in honor of his naval service. Jackie Cooper was married to June Horne from 1944 until 1949, with whom he had a son, John "Jack" Cooper, III (1946). June was the daughter of director James W. Horne and actress Cleo Ridgely. Cooper was married to Hildy Parks from 1950 until 1951 or 1954 (sources differ), and to Barbara Rae Kraus from 1954 until her death in 2009. Cooper and Kraus had three children, Russell (1956), Julie (1957-1997), and Cristina (1959-2009).
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March 13, 2021 - Cooper's Hawk perched on a fence at Chino Hills State Park, on my first visit here. Photo shoot with Ayla Qureshi.
Cooper is a 9 week old lab (therapy dog in training) that came to visit our office today. Such cuteness!
The doll I ordered from the UK has a hat but no brush, the US doll has a brush but no hat. I like the hat version better!!
From my blog review:
www.toyboxphilosopher.com/2013/07/pinkie-cooper-by-bridge...
Cooper's and Sharp-shinned look very similar and both have variation within the species. Photo taken in Northern Utah. If it helps on the ID, the male and female look identical to me.
Anyway, a pair are nesting in my back yard. My neighbors and I all have some land we let grow wild. Mostly because we don't want more yard work, but also because our own little forest is cool. I'd say all combined it's about 2.5 acres or so. I've seen these hawk around for about a month and saw one pick off a bird at my feeder, but getting images of them in the dense trees hasn't paid off. This shot is still pretty cluttered but it's by far the best I've gotten.
This isn't near the nest, this is one of three perches they like away from the nest. I think they like this perch because it has a nice view of my feeder. The nest is about 60 feet up in the top of a large Box Elder tree. I haven’t seen them in the nest much. But they sure hang out around it a lot.
A pair of Cooper's Hawks nest and feed in one of the trees in our backyard. This morning, Gambel's Quail was on the menu.
Apparently this species has "marked reverse sexual size dimorphism, with males weighing about 65% of females" so this is the lady hawk; the male is a skinny little guy.
This Cooper's hawk had found a house sparrow in the pile of sticks. After about 10 minutes, the hawk flushed the house sparrow out. The house sparrow flew off quickly with the Cooper's hawk in hot pursuit.
Este gavilán de Cooper había encontrado un gorrión doméstico en la pila de ramas muertas. Después de unos 10 minutos, el gavilán hizo salir al gorrión. El gorrión doméstico huyó rápidamente y el gavilán de Cooper lo perseguía pisándole los talones.
View of Cheat Lake, from the Raven Rock overlook.
Coopers Rock State Forest, West Virginia (Nov 10, 2013
Tiptoeing through the thorny Salt River highland, a raptor in the distance is noticed. Cooper's starts calling, then another swoops in. I hold ground for 15 minutes until one perches for a shot. It has its morning prey and is hardly distracted by my presence. 5 minutes of repositioning slowly for an unobstructed view, Cooper's chows down while I let my shutter rip at 10fps for 10 straight minutes...no buffer. The head Sheriff Deputy and his swat team swarm in, scare Cooper's away and cite me for firing an automatic.