Showing posts with label cooper's hawk. Show all posts
Showing posts with label cooper's hawk. Show all posts

Monday, 4 January 2021

Coopers or sharp-shinned?

 We had a visitor at the bird feeder. I was sitting in my lazy boy chair, and I looked up and out the window. There it was. I think I did a sort of double take. "OMG, a hawk!" 

Let me crop that for you!


Question is, is it a Sharp-shinned or a Cooper's hawk? <= this site provides some clues. 

That written, I still don't know! We had a Cooper's here before, confirmed by Gilligalou. 

Then, there was this one, a juvenile sharp-shinned hawk, on a cold afternoon. It was April, 2015. [Critters abound: hawk on the bird feeder!]
This is our sharp-shinned hawk.

This one hit the window, self-inflicted chasing a bird! It recovered, as Hooper watched over it. [Tornados, Cardinals, Butch, and a hawk!]

I got up, and went to the other window. By the time I remembered, on my new videocamera, that I had to manually open the lens cap, it was in flight. Hawk jan 2