Kane County, Illinois

My back garden in Belmont, CA

Nikon D500, Sigma 60-600mm Sports lens, 650mm, f/10, 1/250, ISO 720, Sigma TC-1401. Thanks to all for the ID help! View Large.

Added some texture for this portrait! A bird expert said maybe over age 2yrs. Outer texture is my own, softening texture from Anna Lenabem.

Nikon D500, Sigma 60-600mm Sports lens, 600mm, f/8, 1/800, ISO 400. View Large.

Community Garden, Fort Mason, San Francisco, CA

He was playing park greeter, right at the circle.

New Britain, PA

LaBelle, Idaho

Spotted this immature Cooper's Hawk perched near a trail in the RBG Cootes Paradise Sanctuary, Hamilton, Ontario.

(Accipiter cooperii)

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.

Cooper's Hawk

It is amazing to watch these Hawks...how still and motionless they are!

Community Garden, Fort Mason, San Francisco, CA.

Close up view of a Cooper’s Hawk.

Québec - Canada

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

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

Sunset seen from our camp by the Cooper Creek at Innamincka, South Australia. It was enough to make us stay for another day.

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.

Even when we remove small-bird feeders, one hawk or another uses the twig above the empty holder as a perch. Distant conifers surround the perch feeder with green hues; not a post-processing effect.

Growing bolder in the rain.

Larger view of wet head feathers: www.flickr.com/photos/jan-timmons/49265744782/sizes/k/

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

A set of helpers push loads eastbound over the Bluestone Branch at Coopers. West Virginia.

Great to see the Cooper's Hawks back in our river valley, however the small birds, chipmunks and squirrels definitely wouldn't agree !!

This Coopers Hawk has discovered that my yard is easy pickings for lunch and dinner. However, since he was looking for his fast food every day, he scared off most of my birds. It took about a month to see the regulars at the bird feeder again. I actually started to feel sorry for this hawk. He would show up multiple times in one day and would even hang out for a while. This hawk must've been very hungry. Eventually he moved on

Coyote Hills Regional Park

Fremont. CA

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Cooper's Hawk

Accipiter cooperii

My closest encounter with one of these.

Dixon Meadows, PA

Coopers hawk (m)

Was very excited to find this guy today folks it's been quite some time since I've seen one of these guys. Normally I would wait a day or so but there was not much out there and you really have to work for everything you get now a days.

Thanks to all who visit and it is all very much appreciated.

Posing for a portrait on my fence.

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.

LaBelle, Idaho

Mud Lake, Ottawa