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Date: Mon, 20 Jun 2005 21:45:14 -0600 (MDT)

It was submitted by markraddatz@hotmail.com
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Subject: Cooper's Hawk attacked me!

Email_Address: markraddatz@hotmail.com

Message: I was up at Rock Canyon park today and got attacked by a cooper's 
hawk. Has this happened to anyone else? I was down in the trees off to the 
right of the main trail from the entrance to the park. I was looking through 
my binoculars when I heard it start calling. I was excited to see it, but 
was focused in on a Lazuli Bunting. All of the sudden I heard a big swoosh 
right over my head. I ducked and looked up to see the hawk flying away. I 
was kind of hidden behing a small tree and wondered if the hawk was hunting 
something and had just not seen me. I looked at it through my binoculars 
where it had landed not far from me. It started calling again and dove down 
out of the trees. It came right at me. It was gliding about 5 feet of the 
ground. I ducked and stuck my hand up right as it got to me. It veered 
away from me right at the last second. I watched as it flew pretty far away 
and landed in a tree. I figured that was a great time to get the heck outta 
there.!
I started backtracking pretty quickly when it came at me again. I 
couldn't believe it! The same thing happened. I watched as it came close, 
then my reflexes took over and I ducked and stuck my hands up in the air 
just as it veered away. It flew off about 100 yards. I got all the way 
back to the main trail. The hawk dove down again and headed toward me, but 
turned about half way from me and flew back up the hillside. I'm sure I was 
intruding on it's nesting area or something, but I've birded at that same 
location lots of times before. It kind of shook me up a little! I tried 
birding for a few minutes more, but decided I'd call it a day!
 
 

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