Posted: 12/5/2010 9:30:57 AM EDT
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Just killed a pigeon on my driveway.
Sharp Shin? 
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have to vote no on this one. Falcons have a small "tooth" like protrusion on their upper mandible that they use to sever the spinal column of their pray. The OP's raptor has hawk like mandibles. 
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I vote Sharp-shinned, but they are not easy to tell apart.
Identifying Cooper's and Sharp-shinned Hawks |
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Yup, Cooper's Hawk.
They are pretty neat birds to watch in action. We have one that's been hanging around my store for a year or so. This last Saturday morning he was making a meal from a (still alive) rabbit in my parking lot and wasn't going to budge from it until I got about 3 feet away. 
I moved the rabbit to a grassy area, ended its suffering, but the bird gave me the evil eye during the process. The hawk went right back to it after I walked away. 
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Our area is a bird sanctuary. We have a huge nest of some sort eagle or hawk in our back yard. We have seen bald eagle flying over. We also saw a huge hawk with at least a 5 foot wing span fly real close to us and take off down the road. The woodpeckers here are beautiful too. I haven't seen any, but I hear owls hooing. Those are beautiful bird pictures you have there. I have never really gotten to see bird wildlife close up until we moved to this area and I think they are beautiful. I hope to see what is living in that big nest in the back yard.
This was last winter after an ice storm. 
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Just killed a pigeon on my driveway. Sharp Shin? http://i868.photobucket.com/albums/ab250/Timcohydronics/DSC02161.jpg Looks like a Pittsburgh Steelers bird and a raven underneath! 
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Just killed a pigeon on my driveway. Sharp Shin? http://i868.photobucket.com/albums/ab250/Timcohydronics/DSC02161.jpg "Are you not entertained!"
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