Back in August of this year, I posted about a hawk putting on a display outside my office window.
In September, Mike in La Mesa wrote:
Wanted to add something for Steve who posted below me. That’s not a red tailed hawk. It is a Coopers Hawk. You are lucky, Coopers hawks sightings are much more rare, as they are stealth hunters. Red tails hunt from high positions which makes them easy to see. You can identify the Coopers hawk because the tail feathers are much longer than they would be on a red tail. Although it can be easily confused with an immature red tail as the tail feathers have the same barring on themSorry for the novel.
Thanks Mike, for the clarification, which I just saw today.