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# Square Meals: Cooper’s hawk snacks in downtown Bloomington
- URL: https://bsquarebulletin.com/square-meals-coopers-hawk-snacks-in-downtown-bloomington/
- Published: 2021-01-16T21:19:50.000Z
- Updated: 2025-02-25T02:29:49.000Z
- Author: Dave Askins
- Tags: Old B Square, #imported-whole

For a couple hours Saturday morning, a winged creature as big as maybe five robins smooshed together into a single bird perched on a branch outside the window of The Square Beacon’s headquarters on 6th Street in downtown Bloomington.

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Cooper’s hawk on 6th Street in downtown Bloomington on Jan. 16, 2021\. (Dave Askins/Square Beacon)

Even though its leaves have been dropped for the season, the [city of Bloomington’s tree inventory](https://bloomingtonin.treekeepersoftware.com/) makes the tree easy to identify as a littleleaf linden.

The bird was identified by reliable sources on internet social media as a Cooper’s hawk.

After a while, the hawk began feeding on what looked like a small songbird it had brought along as a snack.

If the hawk had chosen a tree just a half block west, where the streets make a regular four-sided polygon around the county courthouse, the songbird could have counted as a square meal.

**Photos**

[Click to view slideshow.](https://bsquarebulletin.com/2021/01/16/square-meals-coopers-hawk-snacks-in-downtown-bloomington/#gallery-17068-2-slideshow)