Off Topic One too many trips to the bird feeder...
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ingersollguy
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Thats crazy
All i have are blue jays and squirrels in mine
All i have are blue jays and squirrels in mine
@stomp please don’t feed the sparrow’s again,(like I do- LoL
), for I don’t like to see a photo/image of a Coopers Hawk with a dead sparrow in its talon’s!! 
lol 
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@stomp I am not a bird watcher,(yes- fish@stomp please don’t feed the sparrow’s again,(like I do- LoL
watcher -), by any means,but perhaps a juvenile Coopers Hawk would be my guess by the photo,and good luck in identifying the hawk. Attachments
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mustgofishingagain
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It’s a Sharp-shinned Hawk.
Coopers Hawks have a crest on the back of the head (which is lacking in the top photo) and they have a longer tail with a rounded tip.
It’s also a female on its size and was hatched last year because of the brown colouring.
Coopers Hawks have a crest on the back of the head (which is lacking in the top photo) and they have a longer tail with a rounded tip.
It’s also a female on its size and was hatched last year because of the brown colouring.
Yea, my wife is obsessed so we have like 19 feeders and everything is covered in bird crap.
Right now we have blue jays, cardinals, juncos, gold finches, house finches, chickadees, nut hatches and mourning doves, as well as invasive species sparrows and starlings. Regularly we see red tail and coopers hawks in our yards feeding on Sarah's pets. During the summer add a lot more.
I say Coopers. Smaller and the bands on the tail.
And then there's this hawk... it discovered that a wooden carving red-winged blackbird wasn't food.
Old Cut LongPointer
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As I see it Stomp has one of those fancy muiti-level bird feeders.
My bet is a Coopers Hawk in the early morph stage. His black cap ends at the back of his head and doesn't continue down on the neck.
I make my own suet logs out of an old cedar post and drill 1" holes in it and pack them with semi melted suet. We currently have 6 different wood peckers visiting. Downie, Hairy, Red Bellied, Yellow Bellied Sapsucker, Northern Flicker and a big Piliated who stops in every other day. Fill your feeders today everyone, with this big snow coming they're gong to need our help.
I make my own suet logs out of an old cedar post and drill 1" holes in it and pack them with semi melted suet. We currently have 6 different wood peckers visiting. Downie, Hairy, Red Bellied, Yellow Bellied Sapsucker, Northern Flicker and a big Piliated who stops in every other day. Fill your feeders today everyone, with this big snow coming they're gong to need our help.
seeds. It definitely does look like,that we are in for a nasty winter storm!!
Yep! I'd guess a juvenile Sharp-Shinned. A Coopers is very similar. Relative size is the best way to tell them apart. Hard to tell from a photo. Sharp - Shinned are a little bigger than a Morning Dove and Coopers are almost twice the size. Both like to feed on sparrows and visit feeders on a regular basis.
singlemalt
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I am on the side of a sharp shin. I agree they are tough to tell from coopers but judging the size relative the unfortunate sparrow and its rather small delicate looking head I say sharp shin. Coopers are bigger but also have a more robust and powerful look about them.
Schmick
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Greg, I hope at least you do your best Marlon Perkins impression while witnessing this raw display of nature’s wrath….
Funny, now that you mention it @G.Mech , the mourning doves that used to be regulars in our backyard have been conspicuously absent
