Yesterday, while banding with a couple staff biologists, this beautiful adult sharp-shinned hawk flew into the net. Luckily no warblers were harmed in the meantime, because no male came in and a female was hanging out in the area but not that close to the net. This hawk does prey on small songbirds, and very well may have been responding to the tape recording we were playing of golden-cheeked warbler. I extracted it and left it go - both the bird and net unharmed!!!
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