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For the past several weeks we have been hearing and seeing this hawk around the upper courts. There is actually two of them and often will see them flying together in search of prey. I sent this photo to a raptor center and was told by Louise A. Shimmel, the executive director of the Cascades Raptor center in Eugene that it was a immature Coopers Hawk... here's her reply..

That's an immature Coopers hawk. They are nesting more and more in cities and suburbs, and being quite successful because of all the bird feeders (their primary prey is songbirds and pigeons). How neat to see them around! Most often they are a brown blur as they speed past the feeder, causing all the feeder birds to dive into cover! Louise

She is right, we can see these birds darh, dart and swoop, in and out through the canopy.