Cooper's Hawk
Cooper's Hawk ~ (Accipiter cooperii )
99/100 times I run into a mid-size brown and white hawk in Florida, it is a juvenile Red-shouldered Hawk. This time I was excited to stumble upon this Cooper's Hawk. I was walking around a lake and not paying as much attention to the trees surrounding it as I should have. I nearly walked under the branch it was perched on. I'm grateful it let me backup slowly and grab a few shots despite my clumsy invasion of its privacy!
