Bill (et al.):
To start off, nice photo Bill! At first glance, I saw the
brown-streaked breast, eyes set well forward on the face, and called this bird a juvie
Cooper's Hawk. (It is extremely unclear to me why anyone would call an obvious
accipiter with brown streaking on its breast an adult. I can see the
difficulty in distinguishing between Sharpie and Coop, but adults of both species
have orangish barring.)
The several Field Guides and Hawk ID guides I own state that a forward
set eye is a Coop field mark, yet some people have used this as a basis for
their Sharpie ID. In fact, in my 20+ years of birding I've found that this is
the most useless field mark authors mention.
That said, my own conclusion is that this is a juvie Sharp-shinned Hawk:
coarse brown streaking on the breast (Coops have finer streaking), a hint
of an off-white supercilium (Coops don't have this), and lack of any reddish
tint/orange buff on the face (which juvie Coops have), as well as points
others have made. But I'm willing to be talked out it.
Good birding, Mike

Michael Marsh
Portland, OR
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