Fascinating. I know our view is different than yours, but I couldn't believe how you spotted that hawk in that thick cover. What an absolute privilege to see all those dramas play out in such a beautiful setting every day!

Blue jays are the best! They let EVERYONE know when trouble's afoot. 😊👍

When I hear a call, I shut my eyes and listen carefully - it helps locate the source of the sound because when I open my eyes in the direction of the sound- I am usually looking right at whatever is making the noise. Try it, it works!

Blue jays give warning and crows give chase. Love it 😊

Blue jays!!! Such noisy and funny things. Thank you for sharing videos of these beauties... I live in the big city so I don't get to see many birds besides pigeons over here.

Lots of drama in today's video. Loved your narration. My heart was beating a bit faster than normal as I went along with you to scope out the area & find the cause. Finally we saw that beautiful Coopers Hawk! Smart little squirrel stayed still & flat so as not to be noticed. Quite the Nat Geo moment today! Wonderful! Thank you so much!

I didnt know until recently that blue jays are related to crows.and boy u can tell by that call

It's funny, I just watched this video RIGHT AFTER snapping some pictures of the Cooper's Hawk that was just overwatching my front yard for an easy snack!!! Had everybody in a tizzy for a while.

I live in N. Indiana....The local Blue Jays (6) always sound off like that when the neighborhood cats are on the prowl...=)

It's SOOOO satisfying to find the bird you're hearing!! I've stood so long under trees, walking down the street in my neighborhood looking up, trying to find the source of a specific bird call.

Very cool video!! Thanks for sharing this experience with us all

Darn it...Some birds just don't like bugs and worms. Thanks for sharing 😄

I just played this for my mountain side birds outback… The crows were sure attentive!!

I LOVE the cooper's hawk call. This was the first raptor I ID'd in my backyard and it will always have a special place in my heart.

A beautiful video. Nice close ups. Many thanks for sharing! Warm greetings friend

We have the red tailed, red shouldered and the coopers. I keep my hens in tractors beneath quarter inch wire. Crazy. One day the tractor was maybe 18 feet from the back door. It didn't budge when I opened the door. It was sitting atop the tractor right on the wire looking down studying my girls.

There was one in some trees in my yard and there was a stray cat, it started screaming at the cat in a different call

I live in SoCal, San Bernardino, I get to see red tail and Cooper’s hawk all the time and I love it. There’s a small church nearby with a lot of older large trees and a nest that’s been in use by a hawk family for about 6 years now. We do get smaller woodpeckers, like the ladder back, but if I were to driver up into the mountains the variety is greater of course. Then my favorite would be when the great horned owls make an appearance down here, it’s not often, but I live in the foothills, so often enough.

Love your offerings & esp commentary. Cheers

Mine stakes out my birdfeeder here in southern Va and creates havoc too.Wouldnt change a thing in my backyard lol

Thanks for posting this. This is exactly how it was in my yard as well early evening. I could not figure out the hawk call until i started googling. I live on a very wooded lot and neighborhood in New Berlin, WI.

Amazing! Thank you.

I used to use the Blue Jays when I bow hunted. I e seen them throw a fit over a snake they spotted. We have the red tailed hawk around our feeders. I enjoy your videos, thank you for sharing.

Thank you we have a coopers Hawk...

Great video. Thank yiu! Just found your video after spotting a Coopers Hawk in our backyard yesterday. I watched him fly in. It rested for a good 15 minutes. I called my wife on the cell phone, and she came out as well. He was about 30 feet up in a nearby Tree VERY close to us. We then went into our swimming pool which is even closer to him. He watched, and rested perched on that oak tree branch the whole time. That was a whole half hour. We left him undisturbed. Obviously a little concerned about our neighboring birds, rabbits, and squirrels that nest here. Lots of blue Jay's, morning doves, robbins, and sea gulls for him to snack on. Still, everyone has to eat! We felt a little enamored that the Coopers hawk hung out so long. Beautiful raptor! Predators have such a purposeful existence. It was nice to see this one hanging out between meals. ; )

Great video! Thanks for sharing!

I see tons of coopers here in corona ca I live on a man made lake and they are all over. I look forward to there calls everyday 6 am

Very helpful, thank you!

Great footage my friend I like it.thanks for sharing this

Thanks! I believe this is what i'm hearing at Night. Not yet seen. Just before and up to a couple hours after dark. Great, not going to be easy to see.

We have a well-fed female Cooper's who visits regularly. One day, 2 of our squirrels spent over an hour with her high in one our neighbor's trees, teasing and provoking her by prancing on the branch where she had perched, creeping ever closer. Their last few minutes of teasing brought them within 5-6 feet of her before she flew off. Other than those 2 idiots, lol, there wasn't a bit of prey in sight, not even to squawk a warning. Our girl has often been spotted swooping down onto and into our neighbor's hedge, chasing the LBBs (Little Brown Birds --- female finches, sparrows, etc.). With Tripod having been absent for many months now, I can only conclude that she or another hawk finally caught him and I'm convinced that I'm seeing mostly a new generation of squirrels now. None seem to have quite the same quirks as the ones who were here when we first arrived.

My indoor cat is fascinated by this video!

I just heard the cooper hawk today and had never heard that particular call before. I also spotted a large owl in the same tree. My cat was outside so I brought him in, just in case. Very cool though!

good job! very interesting.

Nice documentation. I fear for the smaller animals and birds but also now realize that we need predators to maintain a balance.😀

Cool video!

Great vid... I just had an encounter with a Coopers calling as I was counting up my chickens who had just come into their coop to roost. I thought, for a moment I was missing one ( I wasn't) and opened the door to chick, chick , chick.. and was answered by the call of what to me sounded like a chicken making a weird call, so I walked out toward the sound, and saw a hawk fly out of the top of an evergreen about 100 feet away.. I didn't know what kind it was ,as it was dusk but after hunting, you tube, as you did the forest looking for the cause of the disruption, I did find your video with the exact call I'd heard... Thank you for nicely done work. I am now educated more!

Whenever I hear this sound I know I will find feathers all over the sidewalk very soon This is the sound they make as they are attacking a bird's nest and feasting on a baby bird

Wow! We get a lot of Cooper's Hawks in my neighborhood I have a really beautiful picture of one that was sitting in my neighbor's front yard and a low pine tree. I live in North Florida. I did not realize that Cooper's Hawks sounded like woodpeckers! And I know that I have heard this noise quite often because I believe we actually have more than one Cooper's hawk in our neighborhood. I do know that the Jays will alarm the forest. Once when I was reading on my porch I kept half listening to the J's making a fuss and finally it wore on my nerves until I walked out the back to find out what it was they were fussing about and there was a gray oak snake making its way down my fence! I know a lot of people love snakes I do not! But I'm also scared to dispose of them! Lol! So instead I fight with water! Grabbed my trusty spray nozzle hose opened it wide and sprayed that snake right out of my yard! Nasty buggers! I'm pretty sure they cleaned out my Wren nest in the front yard...

This hawk literally all the time :ಠ~ಠ

Where in NC? I’m out walking my dog by Lake Norman, and I just spotted a Coopers. I work with the raptor center, so I’m always on the lookout.

Ironically, Blue Jays can mimic a Red shoulder hawk almost perfectly.

Last spring, we heard the Bluejays making that same distressed call. The call grabbed my attention right away because it was different than normal, much more like a warning. Then we spotted the Coopers Hawk perched in a tree. The BJ’s we’re trying their best to scare it away but the CH nested and was around all year. We’ll see if we have them again, this year.

Hawks of all kinds are still awesome!!!!!

The crows are showing their love for that hawk

Thanks. This video was very informative. I live on Long Island and have been seeing alot of Cooper Hawk activity around my yard over the past couple of years. I have a small dog and had another small dog when these first started appearing or maybe we just finally noticed them. Over the years I have found a torn apart rabbit on my front lawn. That was a horrific site to clean. I often see the Hawk in my backyard bushes looking for birds. We have feeders which attracts many birds and squirrels which attract these hawks. I am extra cautious with my dogs. I usually see the hawks early to mid morning landing in my backyard on my pool deck looking disheveled. I have seen them fly overhead as late as 4 or 5 in the evening. Yesterday morning when I went out to get the paper there was a crow in the tree across the street making all sorts of noise and squirrel fur all over my driveway. No gor or anything but squirrel fur everywhere. Chunks of it. Gross. I knew it was a hawks doing. This morning I woke up and took the dogs outside and went with them. Especially being that the little one was also going out. They did their business and came back in. I then went out front to retrieve the newspaper and was inspecting some of yesterday's squirrel fur a little closer when I heard a bird calling. It was off in the neighbor's backyard up in a tree. I couldn't really focus in on it so I wasn't sure exactly what it was. I made a noise to get it to fly off and it flew off yelling it's call. I was sure by it's wingspan it was the cooper hawk. So I watched this video to udentify the call because I have never actually confirmed what it sounded like. Sure enough that was a cooper hawk. Got to love spring. I guess I better be an alert. I don't want it getting to my dogs but I also don't want them killing my backyard birds and squirrels. Thanks for video. It also helped me to confirm some other bird calls. I will be playing this video for my family so they can identify a hawk in the area.

Yeah one landed at my animal sanctuary a few days ago. Every time I see him I go after him with the leaf blower or pressure washer. He's rapidly learned if he sticks around here he's going to get hassled relentlessly. Only say him once today and when I stepped out with the leaf blower he bolted immediately. I do believe he's getting the point and will be gone shortly. It's a big world and there's plenty of places for him to find food, just not in my teeny tiny patch of it. That's sacred ground.

Sounds like by me. Got a pair that nest in my back yard and they always fussing at me. They put a hurting on the squirrels. The crows give them hell and also the blue jays.

AGREE,,,BLUE JAYS ARE THE BEST ALARM,,,HAWKS HAVE EAT ALSO & WHATEVER THEY CAN FIND,,,MORE POWER TO THEM ,BEATS STAVING

2:14 OH YEAH! There is a predator close by. That sound. I've been off an on with bird watching in my early teens and 20's, and of the pandemic I've made it concrete. And the one thing I know is the distress call. But with blue jays. Food time ca and distress are the same. Like back in TN, all the birds even let their nestling or fresh from nest near me. But when a cat came close, or a copper, or a peregrine, or Rhonda (my pet black vulture. She was injured. That's a whole different story) came walking for me to feed her.

Of course jays and crows get up to their own trouble! I had to stop feeding birds because the hawk pair hunted mercilessly to feed their young. If the hawk is close enough, I turn on the sound of the hawk to see where the hawk is and draw it out. I had hoped the call was the pileated woodpecker because, as you say, they sound sort of similar. But, no, it’s a nest of hawks again!

So being home on quarantine I was able to witness a Cooper's Hawk dining on a pigeon in the Big Pine Tree outside my V story apartment Window. Are surprised to see him so much in the city. Also live very close to the Pacific Ocean looks like an 8 minute drive away and there was woodsy parks. I live in Seattle insofar fine I decided to play your video the crows are doing a lot of flying right now because there's a nest in this tree. I thought I would stir up some trouble with the local wildlife.🐱

4:30 for those who appreciate their free time

Wow, that was fascinating. I've never heard a Cooper's hawk make that sound before. I hate it when they attack birds at my feeder. A Cooper's hawk caught an Acorn woodpecker near my peanut feeder. I heard the woodpecker screaming and I ran out to find a gruesome scene that I had to clean up. It was horrible.

I learned a lot from this video! Great video!

Many bird noises!

You gotta love bluejays they do not like trespassers and they will let it be known

Any chance that you can identify the hawks that live on our property. We throw the chicken every night an hour before sunset. They react to a whistle and fly from the power line and grab the chicken bits mid air. Both male and female. I’m thinking it’s a Cooper’s hawk . Please respond and I’ll send photos.

Blue Jay's helps all kinds of animals. Good or bad . Tell there danger nearby or food. When blue Jay's call crows,ravens And other preater birds will Come Too check it out.the prey animals will run and hide.and helps people When they hunt for big game or Small game.and helps prey aniamls like the coyote and others. Blue jay's helps deer tells there Danger here by. And blue Jay's Are a beautiful bird I like watching And hearing them . That one bird You can teach to talk. If you find when still a baby .

Do they also make high pitched shrill noises like a red tailed hawk? Ive suspected that Ive seen coopers hawks here in Nebraska. A hawk flew about 20 feet from me and made the same noise I heard in the video mid flight but when they are perched in a tree its the shrill high pitched calls.

HAD A RED TAIL HAWK,,,LEFT WING WAS PRETTY BAD SHAPE,,,FIXED IT & LET GO BACK TO THE WILD,,,I SEE HIM FROM TIME TO TIME,,HE'S FREE,,,JUST LIKE THE SONG!!!!!

Isn't the call we're hearing from a pileated woodpecker?

Funny story I saw 2 blue Jay's and 2 coopsers hawks next to each other 1 hawk was guarding the blue Jay's whe the other whent to attck the other hawk knocked it away

Which bird was making that very high pitched squeak alarm?

It is that time of year for the coopers. The one around here uses my back yard as her personal feeding ground. All winter i have to deal with shredded feathers and bird bits. My yard looks like a crime scene in winter. Beautiful birds but i hate them. And the jays will also make a huge noise to scare away other birds from food. Have you ever known a coopers to try and take a full grown squirrel? I have one black female i have been hand feeding for 2 years. She is pretty special to me.

Whose's the guy mumbling in the background?

ALSO IF A CAT KILLS A BABY BLUE JAY,,THE MOTHER WILL HAUNT THE CAT FOREVER ,,,,

These Cooper Hawks love killing the mourning doves in my area