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My back garden in Belmont, CA

He was playing park greeter, right at the circle.

New Britain, PA

St. Albert, Alberta.

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Community Garden, Fort Mason, San Francisco, CA.

Dining on a Gamble's quail by my kitchen door. He plucked the quail, ate 1/3 of him and left the carcass on my favorite chair. I cleaned up the mess not realizing he would return the next morning for breakfast. I'll know better next time.

Close up view of a Cooper’s Hawk.

Cooper's Hawk

Photographed in my backyard, Yakima County, Washington. IMG_5048

A pair of Cooper's Hawks were busy flying to various trees and trying to extract some twigs. They were then flying back to another tree that was being used to build a nest. It was quite a neat experience and they let me get a bunch of images while they worked on their material gathering.

Canatara Park, Sarnia, ON

Wildwood Lake, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania www.explorewildwoodpark.org

Cooper's Hawk, Wildwood Lake, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania

Cooper's Hawk. This hawk hunts around our neighborhood. He chased a pigeon into one of our windows, killing it instantly. He was not leaving without that pigeon, so he let me get unusually close to take some pictures.

I caught one of our resident hawks in our neigbor's tree, irritating the local blue jays. Glendale, Missouri

eye-to-eye

A pair were hunting around the grounds.

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Pinecrest, Ottawa.

Dashing through vegetation to catch birds is a dangerous lifestyle. In a study of more than 300 Cooper’s Hawk skeletons, 23 percent showed old, healed-over fractures in the bones of the chest, especially of the furcula, or wishbone.

A Cooper's Hawk practising Yoga! Photographed in Adams Gulch near Ketchum, Idaho

Coyote Hills Regional Park

Fremont. CA

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Cooper's Hawk

Accipiter cooperii

I had to check and am pretty sure this is an immature Coopers Hawk. I thought from pictures it might have been a Sharp Shinned, but the markings on the chest convince me otherwise. I'm perfectly open to being corrected if any of you think otherwise. I got lucky with this hawk as I saw it coming from a distance and was able get it in the frame for a long series of shots. This one is my favorite because of the way the light is striking its head.

LaBelle, Idaho

Peace Valley Park bird blind. This fella dropped in and caught something on the other side of the fence yesterday. He then just sat there the whole time I was there. Thanx

A surprise find in my backyard - a little cooper's hawk with a fresh kill. I slowly stepped out into my backyard and photographed this bird enjoying it's fresh kill. Was sadly harassed by a very brave red squirrel and eventually took it's kill away into the bushes.

This year we have three cooper hawk fledges. They are currently learning to hunt. Two of the three graced me with their photos the other evening when they landed on the railing of the upstairs deck! Hard to believe these huge birds are babies. :)

Cooper enjoying the morning sun!

Verdun, Montréal, Québec

St.Albert Alberta

Nikon Z 9, 800mm S PF, 1/640, f/7.1, ISO 3600. Immature.