>   This happened about 30 miles south of Bennington in Adams MA. 
>    Thought you might enjoy this report of an immature Coopers hawk . It occurred at the family homestead in Adams. Bern and Barb are 2 of my sisters who 
> now live there. The veggie garden is surrounded by a deer fence  8 feet high of mesh. White and orange tapes tied to it everywhere.
>    Young bird are too much.
>      Terri Armata
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>> After dinner, Bern wandered over to look out the kitchen door window - and immediately noticed a hawk sitting in the driveway between our two cars. To Barb - "Haaaawk . . . hawk hawk".  Barb peeked over her shoulder to see it.  Looked to be an immature Cooper's Hawk - just sitting.  He finally decided to split and lifted off towards the garden . . . and promptly bounced off the garden fence - recovered inflight - but wheeled OVER the fence and INTO the garden - to bounce off the fence on the other side.
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>> Vision a zillion times better than ours - and he can't see a fence festooned with markers????  We dubbed him Ralphie.   He sat on a potato hill for a while, pretending that he meant to stay inside the garden.  And tried again - and bounced off the net again.  This time he sat on a trellis we had just set up over a freshly planted lettuce bed.  
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>> Third time was the charm.  He got a good launch off the trellis and flew directly at us (we were watching on the steps) and over us into the driveway pine trees.  He sat there resting for about 15 minutes.  It must have been very embarrassing for him.  All of the Chickadees were LAUGHING at him.  The Squirlz pointed and giggled.  He finally flew off toward the Airport Road.
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>> Bet He Tried To Nab A Chipmunk On The Driveway . . . And Missed . . . I'm Sure It Is Nervously Laughing Right Now Too
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