What a beautiful thing.
This hawk stalks my small backyard in the near suburbs of Indianapolis...along Holly Creek at College and 81st, to be exact. She (we don't know, but we're sure nonetheless), SHE sits on rocks and squats on the ground and peers into the depths of our little creek in near wintertime hunting small birds or chipmunks or I don't know what. When she spreads her wings, I hold my breath for a moment.
She is, I think, Cooper's hawk. Thoughts?
Update: No, she is a Red Shouldered Hawk, buteo lineatus, a rare and threatened species in Marion County.
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