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Your hawk looks like a juvenile red-tailed hawk. Color is similarish to juvenile Coopers Hawk but red-tail is a lot chunkier with shorter tail.

Many will attest you do not have live in boonies to have your problems. Rooster needs to be > 8 months to be effective.

Your results alone are a far cry form what is required to refute the value of the CD's. More people having tried need to come forward indicating results of using them.

I have seen it less than a dozen times myself over many years. Best evidence I have is that losses of chicks and hens to smaller hawks is greatly reduced when adult rooster is present. Such roosters may not always be as a effective against red-tailed but even then losses still reduced. Dogs...

I do not know if the CD option works or not. Nor do I advocate their use. You nor I are informed enough to say definitively CD's do not work.

In my setting the rooster actually fights the smaller Coopers Hawk and usually runs hawk off without actually coming to blows.

I do very well against Coopers Hawks using full adult standard size roosters. In your setup, more than one may be better. All bets are off if your "Coopers" turns out to be a Goshawk which does have similar feathers and may be in your neck of woods. If latter, then cover run. I also have...