leslie_s's Identifications

Dark phase. Very large, reddish pattern on shoulders. Wings extend past the tail. No red was visible on the tail when it flew.

A rare sight... a Cooper's hawk in plain sight and, for the few minutes I was photographing it, utterly unattended by crows—though not for lack of crows in the vicinity.

Perched on a pier railing at Duxbury Bay, Harden Hill Road, Duxbury, Massachusetts