Spotted this guy in my yard having lunch...sorry for bad pic..

had to shoot through window glass...........Falcon ??



http://www.audubon.org/field-guide/bird/prairie-falcon

Red-shouldered?

Cooper's hawk:

https://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Coopers_Hawk/id

If about 18 to 24 inches long a Coopers. If 12 to 14 inches a Sharp shinned. Both do birds quite well and without scale and a close look are tough to decipher. I tend to see those spots on the backs of Sharpies more often than the Coopers, but they can happen with both.

It's either a Sharp Shinned or Coopers. I have a friend in town that has one of them killing and eating a Eurasian Collared Dove a week out of his feeders! He swears it's the only hawk there!!!

Neat birds---and fast.

Ken

Dam@ Id like to find one that would kill a collared dove a week it would be well cared for!! Maybe a little steak treat once and awhile.

I would say Coopers.

Way too fat to be a Falcon of any sort.

Without knowing the size, it's hard to say for sure. However, the breast on a juvenile Cooper's Hawk is finely streaked, while the breast on a juvenile Sharp-shinned Hawk is coarsely streaked and barred. The detail in the photo makes me think Sharp-shinned rather than Cooper's.

Still not bet a check either way, but it is an immature sample. Chest bars/streaking transition to horizontal with maturity for both species.

Sharp-Shinned vs. Coopers side by side.

http://feederwatch.org/learn/tricky-bird-ids/coopers-hawk-and-sharp-shinned-hawk/

Here are a few of the pics I took on Christmas morning a few years ago at my house. I think I posted them here then and we probably had the same discussion as we are now but lets try again!!! The ground feeder measures approx 12" long by 8" wide. Probably 2 1/2" deep.

Coopers or Sharp Shinned ????

Ken

With some items for scale, I'd go Sharpie on that one.

Nothing for scale here but also a mature Sharpie. About twice the size of a Sparrow Hawk (Kestral).


Another immature that frequents our bird feeder. Note the vertical breast stripes

1Minute, that is a great side by side. Thanks for posting.