[CT Birds] hawks in Branford - 12/31

[Sunshine]

>From Donna Lorello:

 

12/31 - around 3:30 pm.  My apologies for not posting yesterday.  In my ever
growing desire to feel completely comfortable identifying the sharpie from
the coopers, I'll greatly appreciate a correction to the ID if I am wrong
again - bird was around 13 inches top of head to tip of tail give or take a
little (educated guess based on the photo of the bird sitting on the lattice
fence - the half square opening is 1.75 inches and I gauged that against the
total height of the bird), small roundish head - little to no visible
terminal band on the tail feathers.  Pictures posted in Webshots -
http://community.webshots.com/user/arcadian7.   I have plenty more if these
are not sufficient. 

 

There was a Coopers earlier in the day - around 10am or so - bird was
obviously larger - crow sized with rounded tail when spread and front showed
the typical streaking that was pointed out to me by Greg.

 

I want to thank the bird for the photo ops - this was an incredible
encounter - the bird never flew too far from me at any given time during the
half hour it was present and was no more than 20 feet away at each location
in the yard that I took pictures.