Yesterday evening we had an extraordinary viewing of a sharp shin hawk, sitting right on our backyard bench apparently interested in the numerous sparrows we have been fattening up at our seed feeder this summer.  The sparrows stayed in their tree and were relatively quiet, but the hawk would turn his head around 180 degrees listening for them.  He was completely unfazed by us, and Fred got some wonderful pictures.  It was a juvenile, with a striped breast and yellow eyes.  He finally flew up into the tree where the sparrows were.