A juvenile Cooper's hawk that is sitting on a large tree branch. This behavior was the topic of a small bit of conversation. The hawk is not on a nest and has fledged (can fly). The expectation is that the bird would stand/perch.

If you know why a bird (or hawk in particular may do this) please let me know!

A snoozy juvenile Cooper's hawk.

Watcher of the Woods

Here’s a red-tailed hawk (Buteo jamaicensis) I spotted some time ago while Charlie and I were out walking. I captured the image from quite a distance using my walkaround setup—a Canon 6D Mark II paired with a 100–400mm lens and a 1.4x extender, giving me an effective focal length of 560mm. The hawk was likely 100 meters away, maybe more, but even at that range, its presence was unmistakable.

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looking through some old photos of birds taken by a family member, and I found this one of falconer with some kind of hawk, taken somewhere in England sometime in the 2000s, and was wondering if anyone might have any clue what species this is

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Vastly outnumbered hawk driven off by crows. Palo Alto, California May 2025 #birdphotography #hawk #DonEdwards #naturephotography #Nikon #Z9 #bird #birds #birdwatching #birding #nature #crows

Juvenile Red Tailed Hawk (Buteo jamaicensis) in the Don Edwards Wildlife Refuge, San Francisco Bay, October 2023
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An encounter with a Broad-winged Hawk on a rainy Vincentian road.

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Cooper’s Hawk. LA Arboretum, Arcadia, California, USA. July 2025. #laarboretum #bird #birds #raptor #hawk #coopershawk #birdphotography #nature #naturephotography #amateurphotography #photography #omsystem #om1 #mzuiko300mmf4

Don't Think I Don't See You.

I glanced out the back door and spotted a red-shouldered hawk (Buteo lineatus) perched on a limb, eyeing my bird feeders like a feathered predator on surveillance duty. Gives “bird feeders” a whole new meaning, doesn’t it? I grabbed my camera and started snapping—but the hawk took off, and that’s when I realized there was no SD card in the camera. I fixed that blunder, then Charlie and I sat outside for a bit, hoping the hawk might return. To our surprise, it did—something I wished for but didn’t actually expect. The funny part? A bunch of pigeons loitered on the roof of my little garage, completely unfazed. Maybe they know the hawk can’t catch them.

Trainee hunter. This young #sparrowhawk will soon be terrorising the #woodland like its parents.

Photographed under license.

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This summer we’ve had a family of red-tailed hawk nesting in one of our pine trees - two parents and two chicks (which we learned are called eyasses). Last week one of the chicks was learning how to fly by jumping from one side of our deck to the other…..plus learning to walk (a bit like watching a drunk 80 year-old). Today three of them were hanging out together in another tree.