Greg and all--
        Red-shouldered hawks have joined Cooper's in adapting to human
environments.  Researchers in Cincinnati studied this phenomenon in an
article in the Condor (available online at the SORA site): Dykstra,
C.R., J.L. Hays, F.B. Daniel, and M. M. Simon. 2000. Nest site selection
and productivity of suburban Red-shouldered Hawks in southern Ohio.
Condor 102:401-408.  Feeding birds, understandably enough, changes the
local species composition; fewer observers are aware, for example, that
rodents attracted to spilled seed also attract owls after dark. I live
in a 'very urban neighborhood' too, and red-shouldered hawks have nested
for years only a few hundred yards from here.
Bill Whan
Columbus

Greg Spahr wrote:
> Since the weather got bad, I've had an immature Red Shouldered Hawk
> terrorizing the customers of my feeding station near Yellow Springs in Greene County.
> I live in a very urban neighborhood and I am used to Cooper's hawks scaring my
> feeder birds, but having an enormous Red Shouldered Hawk on the fence right
> outside my kitchen window is a real treat.  How unusual is it for the RSH to
> move into urban areas in winter?
>
> Greg Spahr
> Fairborn OH (Greene County)

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