More on Cooper’s

The Cooper’s hawk (COHA) is a sneaky, high-strung animal. It is all business-like. This hawk will kill just for the fun of it. It will kill just to kill, not to consume. Similar to the cat family. It does not prefer to be in the sky. When it is in the AIR, not the sky, seldom will the hawk circle about or soar. I believe that it does not soar often, because this is wasted time, also it presents too much of a silhouette. To get ahead of myself, concerning Identification: At close range in flight, with binoculars, sometime the tail of the hawk will tremble, some time the body of the hawk will tremble or vibrate. I would think this is the nature of a high- strung animal.

On the previous post of how a COHA arrives at structure penetrating into the sky, now I will advance my take on how a COPA departs the top of structure at 200 feet or more. The hawk    will not depart straight- out level with the top of the structure. The hawk will immediately drop into to sky, outward and downward. The hawk wants to get to, let us say, 120 feet over ground level. I believe that is its comfort zone. In other words, the hawk will not linger in the sky.NB.

The Thought: The Northern Goshawk- loves the sun, wind, thermals, and clouds. Nearly always, the clouds are in the background. So the hawk is in the fore ground. The NG will soar, drift, hesitate, scoot, circle, and stoop. Not so the Cooper’s hawk.NB.