Hawk attack today. Help identify this one please.

[centrarchid]

The smaller (if male much smaller) Coopers hawk would appear very flighty compared to the larger, more cumbersome red-tailed hawk.

 

[ivan3]

Centralchild wrote: Ivan, Your pictured birds look like red-shouldered hawks. I have yet to have problems with them even though they are most abundant hawk on my place..

Thanks! This one lives here, turkeys give it grief but it has yet to bother the chooks (hunts down by the pond). Think the ID on the one below (male Prairie Merlin) is correct. Was drinking coffee by the sliding glass door and the Downy Woodpecker pulled up in time - the Merlin ate the glass):

 

[Gallus Sapien]

I agree it's a young red-tailed. This little Cooper's tried to fly through my glass front door one day -

Yes i agree after a 2nd look

 

[centrarchid]

Thanks! This one lives here, turkeys give it grief but it has yet to bother the chooks (hunts down by the pond).

Think the ID on the one below (male Prairie Merlin) is correct. Was drinking coffee by the sliding glass door and the Downy Woodpecker pulled up in time - the Merlin ate the glass):

Ivan, your little bird looks to be a sharp-shinned hawk. They suck glass too.

 

[hungry4eggs]

I live in West Central Georgia and have a pair of Hawks who live on the other side of the pond from my house. They were out teaching their young ones from last year to hunt today. Was a little creepy buliding my coop when they were hunting the other day. Was like they knew what I was building, lol. Between my dogs and the hawks I have to have a chicken tractor, free ranging is a no go for me. Not to mention the coons, opossums, and such. Though my dogs keep most mammal predators away.

 

[chickengeorgeto]

https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/737187/red-tailed-hawk-killed-my-chicken

If you want to view your hawks up close and personal, like for 'identification' purposes, put a white pullet or pigeon in a wire cage with a flat top and some food and water inside for the pigeon or pullet.
Hawks have real trouble turning down white puffs of petite poultry even if they are safe and secure inside of a wire cage. Be sure now to keep a close watch on the top of the wire cage, because Mr. or Mrs. Hawk will soon be running from one end of the cage's top to the other, stamping his feet in a vain attempt to break into the cage, making it easy for you with a little ingenuity to view the hawk at arms length.