Coopers Hawk??

Imagine my surprise while i'm shooting sparrows, finches and hummingbirds in my yard and this flies in. I've lived in my current house 11 years and never seen one of these remotely close to my neighborhood.

I apologize for the compositions as they are quite lackluster.

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Yes, I think so,. elegant bird!

Yes, an immature Cooper's Hawk.

Nice shots.

How can you tell it's not a Sharp Shin?

Beautiful bird. Well done.

Thank you everyone

@Windpig...That's the dilemma i'm having, having trouble discerning the difference

Ya, my wife is the birding person in the family, but I've see a few of them in our back yard, what them, we don't know.

This Cornell link pretty much says it's a combination of things:
http://www.birds.corne​ll.edu …ding/accipiterI​Dtable.htm

nice

Well done, the Sharp-shinned has skinnier legs and is smaller.

Pondrader wrote in post #16351340
nice

Thanks

2n10 wrote in post #16351382
Well done, the Sharp-shinned has skinnier legs and is smaller.

Thank you for the clear up

I saw my first Sharp-shinned over the weekend. I saw it flying in and thought is was a Kestrel. Size progression from my experiences Kestrel<Sharp-shinned<Cooper's<Red-tailed.

Nice series, lucky you.

Typically the largest things i see in my yard are mourning doves and the occasional scrub jay, when i saw this guy fly in out of the corner of my eye it was like a pterodactyl just landed in the yard, mind blowing to say the least.

The F stops here wrote in post #16355211
Typically the largest things i see in my yard are mourning doves and the occasional scrub jay, when i saw this guy fly in out of the corner of my eye it was like a pterodactyl just landed in the yard, mind blowing to say the least.

LOL, I can imagine.

Great captures.