Returning Neighbor? Cooper’s Hawk

A pair of Cooper’s Hawks nested about 70 feet (20 meters) from my home last summer. They may be planning to repeat this year. This one was sitting on branch outside my window after having stopped briefly at the old nest. The local birds and chipmunks are not too happy about it. But these common hawks are a fact of life for them. In fact, there is a nest box half way between my house and last summer’s hawk nest that was used by some Chickadees at the same time that Cooper’s Hawks were resident just over their heads!