{"id":582,"date":"2015-02-26T12:37:24","date_gmt":"2015-02-26T17:37:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.backyardbigyear.com\/blog\/?p=582"},"modified":"2015-02-26T13:34:20","modified_gmt":"2015-02-26T18:34:20","slug":"backyard-bird-terror-when-accipiters-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backyardbigyear.com\/blog\/backyard-bird-terror-when-accipiters-attack\/","title":{"rendered":"Backyard Bird Terror When Accipiters Attack!"},"content":{"rendered":"

As I’ve been watching my backyard so intensely the last two months, one of my favorite occurrences is when a Cooper’s Hawk<\/strong><\/a> blows through my yard scattering the birds. \u00a0If I’m inside and listening to my OldBird21c microphone while doing other work, I’ll often drop everything when I hear the birds scatter–and if I’m quick enough, I’ll see the culprit winging through the trees or perched after a failed blitz.<\/p>\n

Here’s the audio of birds scattering as an immature Cooper’s Hawk buzzed the yard this morning just before noon.<\/p>\nhttp:\/\/www.backyardbigyear.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/COHA-attack-26-Feb-11-55am.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n

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Starling alarms followed by Mourning Dove eruption<\/p><\/div>\n

Notice the first birds to sound an alarm are the European Starlings<\/strong>, then other birds chip in and the Mourning Doves<\/strong> explode (probably the intended prey) explode into flight. \u00a0Followed by silence as birds hunker down until the bird moves on.<\/p>\n

I love it when this happens. \u00a0The other day, I heard this and said Cooper’s Hawk as I ran to the patio door, just in time to point out the flyby accipiter to my son. \u00a0It was almost magic. \u00a0OK, not magic. \u00a0But close!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As I’ve been watching my backyard so intensely the last two months, one of my favorite occurrences is when a Cooper’s Hawk blows through my yard scattering the birds. \u00a0If I’m inside and listening to my OldBird21c microphone while doing … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-582","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5Blr3-9o","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backyardbigyear.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/582","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backyardbigyear.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backyardbigyear.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backyardbigyear.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backyardbigyear.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=582"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.backyardbigyear.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/582\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":590,"href":"https:\/\/www.backyardbigyear.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/582\/revisions\/590"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backyardbigyear.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backyardbigyear.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backyardbigyear.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}