What Breed of hawk is this?

[grandpawrichard]

Some little Hawks that my wife Ellen Photographed a week ago Saturday. We can't figure out what kind of hawk is in the first two photos.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/92498626@N00/11169430954/#

http://www.flickr.com/photos/92498626@N00/11169576103/#

http://www.flickr.com/photos/92498626@N00/11169556333/#

http://www.flickr.com/photos/92498626@N00/11169417944/#

Dick

[PolarBear]

Sparrow Hawk?

[grandpawrichard]

I'm torn between a Coopers Hawk and a Sharp-shinned Hawk.

Dick

[PolarBear]

Ah, good call!  I'm not real good on birds.  Bone could probaby tell you right off the bat.

[Russ McDonald]

I am tagging this one.  While I was sitting in my blind Friday one was sitting on a fence post.  Pretty cool looking hawk.

[lokidog]

The first pics look like a Merlin or Pigeon Hawk to me.  They are slightly larger than the Sparrow Hawk or Kestrel.  The Kestrel is also much more colorful, even the females.

[lokidog]

The other is a Rough-legged hawk with the dark belly and barred upper breast.

[wildweeds]

I call that buggar in the first two pics a sharp shinned,I can't hardly keep a homing pigeon flock because of them turds.

[Heredoggydoggy]

Pictures 1 + 2 look like a juvenile Sharp-Shinned Hawk.  The white spots on the back give it away.  They lose a lot of the barring as they mature, but the white spots get more pronounced.  I have one availing himself of the Starling kills around my place... 

[pianoman9701]

The other is a Rough-legged hawk with the dark belly and barred upper breast.

  Rough-legged I think.

[Russ McDonald]

The other is a Rough-legged hawk with the dark belly and barred upper breast.

  Rough-legged I think.

Our wild-life biologist at work said that is what it it.

[Yelper Guy]

I agree with the Sharp-shinned Hawk, the first pics.
I also agree with the Rough-legged hawk, technically called a Ferruginous Rough Legged hawk.
They winter in large numbers in the Columbia basin area.

[Heredoggydoggy]

The Rough-legged Hawk is bigger than the Sharp-Shinned Hawk.  I probably have both, but the little guy is the only one I can identify.....

[stringer]

I would say Merlin, aka pigeon hawk.  Winters here.

[BOWHUNTER45]

I think it is a Broad -winged hawk ...