Breakfast was interrupted this morning when a Cooper's Hawk flew by. 
Spencer grabbed his binos and I happened to have the camera out. We 
watched the coops chase away a couple crows in turn from the top of an 
Oak tree, where they had been eating acorns.

If you aren't too annoyed by blurry photos, the link below shows an 
interesting view of the action. The coops clearly made contact with the 
crow, who was upside down (yet didn't drop it's acorn). Once the crows 
were chased away, the coops took off across the field.
    <http://www.geo.umass.edu/climate/doug/orn/sep09_coops.jpg>

Doug Hardy, Norwich

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