This along with tail length make a “flying cross” appearance. Shallow ... and has relatively shorter tail and longer wings. Sharp-shinned hawk is smaller and has a square tail.

It said, “Struggling to separate a sharp-shinned hawk from a Cooper’s? Amazed when a bald eagle is spotted high in the sky ...

Driving on Vermont’s Interstate highways in winter, I often notice large hawks perched in trees on woodland edges at regular ...