A blue jay (top left) and an immature sharp-shinned hawk (bottom right) take flight from an Eastern cottonwood during an ongoing feud that was amusing to observe.

Accipiters include the sharp-shinned hawk, Cooper’s hawk and northern goshawk. Buteos include the red-tailed hawk, rough-legged hawk, broad-winged hawk and red-shouldered hawk.

A sharp-shinned hawk could represent a threat to a fledgling jay, so the general attitude of all jays is one of aggression and intolerance of the hawks.

The sharp-shinned hawk is about 11 inches long from head to tail and this is exactly the same length as that of the blue jay. As a result, they tend to focus their predatory efforts on birds that are ...

A sharp-shinned hawk has pencil-thin legs, while a Cooper's hawk has noticeably thick legs. The sharp-shinned hawk has a small, rounded head with a gray cap extending from the crown to the nape.

As their name suggests, sharp-shinned hawks have very slender legs and wings for navigating dense forests. They remind us to look beyond limiting beliefs and recognize the gifts in ourselves and ...

A sharp-shinned hawk was perched on a chair 100 feet from our seed, suet and bark butter feeders. He certainly had taken the term “bird feeder” at face value.

The sharp-shinned hawk, commonly called a sharpie, is a small hawk with a big attitude.

The blue flash will be either a sharp-shinned or a Cooper's hawk — the infamous "chicken hawks" of rural lore that primarily feed on other birds.

In Michigan, the Cooper's hawk belongs to a group of birds called accipiters, which includes sharp-shinned hawks and northern goshawks.