Thanks to CHS Flickr pool contributor liquidnight for these images of a cooper’s hawk in Cal Anderson Park. We’ve written about the amazing birds in the past — you won’t always see them but it’s not unusual to hear the hawks on a walk through Volunteer Park. For more on the hawks and their home on Capitol Hill, check out this post from last March.
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Absolutely beautiful!
Great job, liquidnight. As always.
we had a similar bird eating a pigeon on top of the telephone pole out from our roof. We identified it as a merlin falcon. Fairly small, distinctively banded tail, orange leggings. Maybe it was this Cooper’s hawk. Quite a sight the day we saw it, but none of our photos are this distinct!
I hope not, ’cause the Honey Badger don’t care!
PS. Great pics of the Hawk, I love seeing our urban wildlife.
I saw a Merlin Falcon in a tree next to St. James Cathedral on First Hill last Friday (3/11/2011). I ID’d by its call.
We live in the Ravenna/U District area. This past January I spotted a Cooper’s Hawk eyeing the chickens in my back yard.
When I heard the chickens hollering I ran to a window to see what was going on just in time to see the hawk swoop over my yard and up into a neighbors tree. My girls hid very well behind some laurel’s and were safe.