Hawk in Yard a Lot

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I having a Cooper’s Hawk spending a lot of time around my chickens. It is a female molting from subadult feathering into her first adult pelage. You can barely make her out in image below where she is perched on left corner of the roof. She allows me within 30 feet if I don’t look at her. When hunting she perches no more than 10 feet up in trees from which she drops down after young Cotton Rats.

The smaller juveniles I think are what the hawk will be most likely to target.

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