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

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.

My favorite car is a Mini Cooper with yellow Daffodil

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

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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

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.

almost sure this is a Cooper's about Crow size. Too bad the tail was not it the picture

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

Thanks for your visit, faves and/or comments.

Cooper's Hawk

Accipiter cooperii

My closest encounter with one of these.

Dixon Meadows, PA

LaBelle, Idaho

Coopers hawk (m)

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.

Mud Lake, Ottawa

I have been observing a Cooper's Hawk nest here for the past few weeks. These are two of the three young ones that survived to this stage. These flew away from the nest three days ago. Their younger sibling was still on the nest yesterday, but was hopping around and wing-flapping to get a purchase on branches higher up from the nest. It will join its siblings soon.

The parents were very much in evidence. They were calling and swooping through the dense forest habitat.

Edmonton Alberta.

"If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world."

J. R. R. Tolkien

One cold morning our sweet dog, Cooper, headed outside to drink some water. He seemed perplexed...staring at his bowl for quite a while. When he returned I noticed his water dish was full of frozen water. I just had to capture the liquid gold.

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Is the ID correct ? I am dedicating this to Nick Holland, His expert bird images will leave you in awe! Please view here, www.flickr.com/photos/greenbunion/50520908988/in/dateposted/

Thanks Nick for you inspiring work and support,

'Seen in Project Contact Thank-You, # 130

Young Hawk stops briefly looking for something to eat. Grabbed my telephoto quick;y.

Cooper’s Hawk with Prey

I was outside in our backyard watering my plants when I heard a huge commotion of flapping wings and shrill cries of mourning doves and killdeer fleeing the area. The hawk made fast work of one the birds and let me get fairly close since it was guarding it’s dinner.

CHRP

I was roaming around photographing flowers with my 100-400 lens when all of a sudden I heard screeching above me. I hurried to where I thought the sound was coming from, looked up and fired off a couple shots. No time to change my shutter speed, hence movement in the tail as he was shaking it.