It's a cold damp day today, and I can't find my breakfast.
Pictured is a medium sized Cooper’s or a big Sharp Shinned hawk, its a little hard to see, as I was quite far away. This fellow is sitting under a small 4′x8′ wire bottom aviary I keep many of my old birds in, the hen section is on the left, and the cock birds on the right, basically open to the wind and dampness, the birds seem to be doing great health-wise, except would be petrified right now by this hawk. He was only there a minute or two then disappeared into the forest at high speed.
I get hawk visits from many different types of hawks, including Merlins, Coopers, Sharp Shinned, Redtail, and others…probably color variations of Goshawks or Marsh hawks, as some appear large, evil and nearly all black. There is also some large solid dark brown hawk or eagle, that eats a muskrat or two in the pond behind my loft.