This was crow sized....

- Sent from iPhone. Typed by thumb. Excuse misspellings! 

> On Aug 22, 2021, at 4:22 PM, Bryce Wolf <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> General rule-of-thumb (but not foolproof) with coops and sharpies:  
> robin-sized: sharp shinned; crow-sized: cooper’s.
> 
> 
>> On Aug 22, 2021, at 3:21 PM, Anne Warner <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>> Having seen the hawk with Dan, and looking at these pictures, it looked more 
>> like the sharp-shinned one most because it was smaller - maybe 11 inches 
>> head to tail feather end? The Cooper’s hawks I’ve seen, even the juvenile 
>> ones, are more like 15 or 16 inches. Also, the breast was dappled and not 
>> striped. 
>> 
>> - Sent from iPhone. Typed by thumb. Excuse misspellings! 
>> 
>>>> On Aug 22, 2021, at 1:00 PM, Rich Rosenbaum <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>> 
>>> 
>>> On the Cornell bird website, it looks a little more like this photo of an 
>>> immature Cooper's hawk:
>>> 
>>> https://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Coopers_Hawk/photo-gallery
>>> <image.png>
>>> 
>>> 
>>> than a similar picture of an immature sharp-shinned, but they are close.
>>> 
>>> https://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Coopers_Hawk/species-compare/70780511
>>> <image.png>
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> On Sun, Aug 22, 2021 at 12:49 PM Dan Paul <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>> We just saw this bird outside our kitchen window. We think it’s a juvenile 
>>>> sharp-shinned hawk. It’s about a foot high with a speckled breast. 
>>>> Thoughts?
>>>> 
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