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Subject:	Re: hawk pics for my oos friends
From:	Jessica Lowery <[log in to unmask]>
Reply To:	Jessica Lowery <[log in to unmask]>
Date:	Wed, 16 Jan 2008 10:12:00 -0500
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this makes so much sense! thank you.
-jessica-
c-bus OH



> From: [log in to unmask]> To: [log in to unmask]> Subject: RE: [Ohio-birds] hawk pics for my oos friends> Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2008 09:31:10 -0500> > Jessica, I think your bird is a Cooper's Hawk molting from Juvenile to Adult> plumage. Juvenile's have brown streaks on their breasts, and adults have> reddish horizontal bars. Photo number 1 shows the horizontal bars you> describe, and they look to me like the Cooper's Hawk bars. Obviously the> change from juvenile to adult takes time, and probably occurs, or at least> starts, in winter.> > You said it was hunting birds, which would indicate Cooper's. Female> Harriers also have heavy vertical stripes, so I don't believe this is a> Harrier. Harriers would likely be hunting in open fields, Cooper's would> more likely be in or near woodlands. You didn't say where this was, but the> bird is perched in a tree. > > Molting birds are often a challenge. They don't look like the pictures in> the books, and can be difficult to identify. > > Let me know what others have to say.> > Good Birding,> > Gene> > -----Original Message-----> From: Ohio birds [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of> Jessica Lowery> Sent: Tuesday, January 15, 2008 11:10 PM> To: [log in to unmask]> Subject: Re: [Ohio-birds] hawk pics for my oos friends> > the owl was in a ravine behind a friend's house. barred owls come there> every summer - in westerville. some people have commented that it may be a> cooper's hawk...or a female harrier. my only problem with the cooper's hawk> i.d. is that is was brown - and juvenile cooper's hawks have heavy vertical> brown streaks on their breast, but this hawk was very light underneath with> faint horizontal bars... that's what makes me unsure.> -jessica-> northeast columbus> > > From: [log in to unmask]: [log in to unmask]: RE: hawk pics> for my oos friendsDate: Tue, 15 Jan 2008 22:48:25 -0500> > > > > > > > > Jessica,> Thanks for the pictures. I was surprised to see the pictures of the baby> owl. Did you take all these pictures at Blendon Woods? It's hard to tell> from the picture but I'm thinking the hawk may be Cooper's Hawk. Has any> one else commented yet?> Al La Sala> > > > > > > From: Jessica Lowery [mailto:[log in to unmask]] Sent:> Tuesday, January 15, 2008 10:19 PMTo: alasalaSubject: hawk pics for my oos> friends> > > > > > > > > > > facebook> > > > > Jessica Lowery> 7:18pm Jan 15th> > > hawk pics for my oos friends> > To [log in to unmask], [log in to unmask], [log in to unmask],> [log in to unmask], and [log in to unmask]> > > > I have added new photos!Jessica has shared an album with you. To view the> album or to reply to the message, follow this> link:http://www.facebook.com/p.php?i=546782320&k=3YATXWV2WYTF6FFFSJ6UU> > > > > > Are your friends bothering you? You can opt out of emails from friends on> Facebook.> > > _________________________________________________________________> Share life as it happens with the new Windows Live.> http://www.windowslive.com/share.html?ocid=TXT_TAGHM_Wave2_sharelife_012008> ______________________________________________________________________> > Ohio-birds mailing list, a service of the Ohio Ornithological Society.> Our thanks to Miami University for hosting this mailing list.> Additional discussions can be found in our forums, at> www.ohiobirds.org/forum/.> > You can join or leave the list, or change your options, at:> http://listserv.muohio.edu/scripts/wa.exe?LIST=OHIO-BIRDS> Send questions or comments about the list to: [log in to unmask]> 
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