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Index of Subjects Hi Merritt, Jean, Suzanne and others, Thank you for pointing out previous sightings of Cooper's Hawk in the Valley. On the presence of a nest with eggs found in 1906 I stand corrected. The sighting from August and Dec.1992 may indeed have been a Cooper's, but now, nearly 15 years later, with only vague recollections and no photo or written description we'll never really know. To be pedantic, there is no Rare Bird Committee. There is a Bird Records Committee of the NSBS, which is still in the process of being formed, and which has not yet had a chance to clearly review any sighting, old or new. Those members of the committee who have seen the description and photo of the mystery hawk on the W.Hants CBC agree that the description sounds like a small Buteo - and so far that's about all. For a committee like that to be credible and respected, all the evidence has to be carefully weighed, various possibilities eliminated, and a conclusion reached based on evidence that will stand the scrutiny of time - and to even say that "is now classified as a Buteo sp. by the Rare Bird Committee" is simply not, at this point, correct. I agree with Suzanne that it would be lovely to have that hawk seen again and photographed more closely. Keep birding fun! Richard On 1/6/07, merritt.gibson@ns.sympatico.ca <merritt.gibson@ns.sympatico.ca> wrote: > Richard > Re: your comments on Cooper's Hawk, particularly "rare and I believe > unrecorded in Kings Co. or the Valley." Robie reports a nest at Black River > Lake, 18 May 1906, (found by Harold Tufts) - the eggs are in the museum in > Ottawa. More recently, I have records for sightings at Lower Canard, 19 > Dec. 1992 and at Evangeline Beach, 25 Aug. 1992. My memory in vague (!) but > I believe one of those latter sightings was by Blake Maybank (maybe not) > > Merritt > > -- ################# Richard Stern, 317 Middle Dyke Rd., RR#1 Port Williams, NS, Canada B0P 1T0 rbstern@ns.sympatico.ca rbstern@xcountry.tv sternrichard@gmail.com ###################
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