This beautiful cooper's hawk, a first-year bird, has been hanging around the FWG and Arboretum for several weeks now. In this photo, she was sitting very near the feeder in the Backyard Garden, causing a minor amount of disturbance amongst the smaller birds. Chickadees were scolding in a half-hearted way, but most birds flew to the feeder, more or less ignoring her. Eventually she flew down to the Arboretum where a big adult red-tailed hawk was being pursued by crows. The cooper's did a quick mid-flight detour and landed in the same tree as the red-tailed, calling quite piercingly. After some time the red-tailed hawk flew pursued by a posse of crows and the cooper's. This went on for the next hour, with the two hawks eventually landing up in a big red oak back at the FWG.