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) ______________________________________________________________________ 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]