Coopers or Sharp Shinned Hawk

by Mark Mehl
(Plain City, Ohio USA)

Dinner Guest

We had just finished dinner and were getting ready to do a few things around the house when my wife yelled at me to get my camera and come to the kitchen.

A small hawk had caught a morning dove and was having it's dinner right outside our kitchen window about 10 feet from the house under the maple tree.

With my new camera I was able to get some pretty good shots through the window. We watched it eat most of it's catch then it flew off with what was left. It was a great sight.

From looking at my books I think it was a Coopers Hawk but it could also be a Sharp-Shinned.