Any ideas what kind of bird this is?

[wanderlust]

I'm thinking a cooper hawk but not positive. It was by far the biggest we've seen. It also let me get within 5 ft of it and didn't fly away until I let the dog out.

 

[Ben Ruset]

My birding friend tells me this is a Red Tailed Hawk.

 

[dogg57]

Its a young bird.
http://carnivoraforum.com/topic/9358436/1/

 

[wanderlust]

I always thought the red tail was pretty unmistakable. We have a ton of red tails around here, two that regular stalk our coop. It didn't look like the typical red tail we see around here. I was thrown off by how close it let me get. We have about 2 acres of land, long and narrow, our house its towards the front, coop towards the back and the hawks will usually take off once I open the door and step out.

 

[pineywoman]

He does look like a Cooper Hawk with the horizontal stripes. Red tails usually have verticle on their "tail". Very pretty and nice shot!

 

[Pine Baron]

Judging by the tail striping and the eye color, it looks like a red-tailed.

John-

 

[manumuskin]

judging by the tail in the first shot I say Red tail.

 

[bushwacker]

yes, that is a juvenile red tail. those very narrow tail band give way to full red in the adult. the belly band in the second shot is quite typical.
a coopers has much wider tail bands

 

[piker56]

The one side shot shows the "stripe" across the breast. I'd agree with the immature Red Tail.
Greg