[EBB Sightings] Coppers Hawk nest sight in Pleasanton

For the 3rd straight year a pair of Coppers Hawks have nested in the
Pleasanton Aquatic Center Park grounds.
But I did not find the nest until a few weeks ago. I don't know if the
pair had young this year.
An adult Coppers has been very active in the last two weeks in a several
block radius of the nest sight.
Nancy Paulus of Pleasanton called me to say she had tracked a hunting
Coppers back to the nest site, a few weeks back.
She gave me directions and that evening I did locate  the nest and a
single adult Coppers a few feet away.
But there was not nest activity, noise our a second adult which might
suggest a family.
Rich Cimino
Pleasanton

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Sent: Friday, June 24, 2005 3:13 PM
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Subject: [EBB Sightings] Re:(EBB Sightings) Lake Merritt


Clark,

That description of the swooping behavior sounds like an adult Cooper's 
Hawk in defense of its nesting territory. Did you or anyone else get a 
count of how many fledged from this nest? We've been tracking this nest 
and 7 others in the El Cerrito, Oakland and Alameda area to compare with

the Cooper's Hawk Nesting Study we're doing in the Berkeley/Albany area 
as part of the Golden Gate Raptor Observatory project. About a one-third

of our nests in the study area are inactive this year possibly because 
of the late rains. I had heard, incorrectly, that the Lake Merritt nest 
was inactive and was happy to hear differently. And yes, I'd love to get

an e-mail of the photo you took

Thanks,
Ralph Pericoli
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