DAY TWO

She dropped a complete ounce from yesterday, and, tonight she, reluctantly, ate off the fist (baby chick). She needs to be a bit lower. She continues to be calm on the pole perch, and bates irregularly. Weight: 14.7 ounces

DAY ONE

Began maning a freshly trapped passage female Cooper's hawk on September 29. She accepts the hood well-enough and is adapting to a pole perch that I keep in my office at home. Her weight is 15.8 ounces.

"If the sharp-shinned hawk is a blood-thirsty villain, this larger edition of feathered ferocity (the Cooper’s hawk) is a worse villain . . . and is the principal cause of the widespread antipathy towards hawks in general."

Authur Clevland Bent
Life Histories of North American Birds of Prey (1937)

And thus we begin our journey . . . .