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Message: <blockquote data-quote="bgebz" data-source="post: 1607258" data-attributes="member: 59799">I threw this photo into photoshop, and boosted the saturation and vibrance.I conclude an adult Cooper's.It is clearly an adult, due to the lack of a yellow eye.  So, that rules out all juvi. forms of cooper's and goshawks.As for the species, I have a few reasons.1.  The barring on the breast is clearly reddish.2.  Because it is an adult, I believe we can rule out Goshawk, due to the VERY strong black barring on the undertail.3.  The eyebrow in the first posted photograph is an artifact, because even with some toying around with in photoshop, NONE of the other shots showed this.  After doing some work with angles in this photograph, it appears that the shadow cast from the perching branch is very similar in brightness difference to the shadow that i believe is cast from the uppermost branch in the photograph (it is cast into the head starting at the nostril, and ending exactly where the eyebrow should be.)I can not explain the out-of-rangeness (haha, that is absolutely not a word) of this particular hawk...Crazier things have happened...such as my recent blue-headed vireo sighting in flagstaff, az.Final conclusion for me:  Adult Cooper's Hawk.Thanks!-bGebz</blockquote>