I was doing some yard work after dinner tonight (20 July 2022) and kept hearing a young Cooper's Hawk (Accipiter cooperii) calling -- a high-pitched, descending wheeeer. When I took a break, I looked around a spotted the hawk perched in a fir tree, probably a few blocks away. The sound really carries!
The hawk didn't come much closer, but here are a few more quick images. I'm guessing this bird fledged from a nest somewhere nearby, but I'm not sure where.
P.S. I didn't record the calls
of this bird tonight, but if you want to hear an example of a Cooper's
Hawk juvenile calling, check out this species account on Cornell's All About Birds page.
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