Name that hawk:

[meowloud]

Hello all! I’ve had a Perigrine Falcon dive-bomb me and my small flock 4 years ago. Thought it was amazing because they are so rare in Tennessee!
Then this tried on my girls inside their home! Was mad it could not get through fencing and voiced it for a long while from a tree. Upset my girls for quite a time.
it was a small hawk, thinking Broad-wing Hawk or Juvenile Cooper’s Hawk?
They only free-range with me or my husband ‘shepherding’ (much to their dismay lol)

 

[sourland]

Be cautious when free ranging. I have had a Cooper's hawk attack pigeons feeding at my feet.

 

[cmom]

It looks like it could be a Red Tail hawk from the picture.
Here is a Red Tail on a bluebird nest box eating a snake. Sorry for the blurry. It had been hanging around but I haven't seen it in quite awhile.

 

[Big Doggie]

Hello all! I’ve had a Perigrine Falcon dive-bomb me and my small flock 4 years ago. Thought it was amazing because they are so rare in Tennessee!
Then this tried on my girls inside their home! Was mad it could not get through fencing and voiced it for a long while from a tree. Upset my girls for quite a time.
it was a small hawk, thinking Broad-wing Hawk or Juvenile Cooper’s Hawk?
They only free-range with me or my husband ‘shepherding’ (much to their dismay lol)

Cooper’s hawks and Sharp Shinned hawks are almost impossible to tell apart. I believe the Coopers has a rounded tail and the Sharp Shinned has a squared off tail shape. From the front they appear almost identical but both are expert hunters. One hawk attack at my wild bird feeder was 5 feet from me. The hawk was flying about 50MPH at 6” off the ground. It tried for a sparrow but missed. A chick would never stand a chance.

 

[Rldad1]

Looks like a Coopers Hawk. Not a Perigrine.

 

[MadamPoofyBrow]

It's hard to tell for sure, but my guess is cooper's. I used to have one that hung around for months with no success, but he never gave up. Be careful; they're persistent and know how to hide.

 

[meowloud]

I took Sourland's words and keep my flock close to heart. I keep a lighted umbrella (from the movie Blade Runner) and it works WONDERS!!!! Once I kept my girls used to me using an umbrella, especially with lights, they will stick with me and follow me wherever and NO HAWKS, FALCONS, and especially those BUZZARDS!!

 

[meowloud]

I do think, upon your pictures, it is a red-tailed hawk. Thank you!!!!!
Also, I've built them a place under our deck. I am teaching them to ring a bell if something is wrong. (My 12 year old cat learned in a year of walking on the back deck if something is wrong with the Fould Fowl to meow. This is the same cat that sits, shakes... left... you want right shake... OK. Roll over? Do the trick for food?
My pets are my babies and learn fast just like we all do to get what we want.

 

[pibb]

Can't tell from you pics but around the time of your first post there were some broad tail hawks migrating through here. They do have a different screech than red tails and a different tail pattern. I think the broad tails are gone now since I haven't seen or heard one in a couple weeks.

 

[thepick4uchicks]

Hello all! I’ve had a Perigrine Falcon dive-bomb me and my small flock 4 years ago. Thought it was amazing because they are so rare in Tennessee!
Then this tried on my girls inside their home! Was mad it could not get through fencing and voiced it for a long while from a tree. Upset my girls for quite a time.
it was a small hawk, thinking Broad-wing Hawk or Juvenile Cooper’s Hawk?
They only free-range with me or my husband ‘shepherding’ (much to their dismay lol)

This is one bird that I am not a newbie at. It’s a detailed hawk. There are plenty of them in the South. We are full of them in MS. What we are not full of is peregrine falcons but where I am from they are rarely seen and definitely most folks don’t even know what they are. However, for some reason or other a family of six a Mom and Dad with four chicks newly hatched this spring have found a home in our little rural home town. They are giants beside a red tailed hawk for sure. They all had hunting training parties out last Saturday and my hens were confused to say the least. Luckily mine don’t free range or they would have been dead chickens. I don’t know if all the changes in the weather patterns or fires, earthquakes, hurricanes, who knows, food shortages whatever but these falcons have come really darn far south. Something not seen and the first in my lifetime.