I'm surprised your neighbor couldn't ID it. Clearly it was a chicken 
hawk. :-)

June

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On 1/9/2010 7:02 PM, Stephen Horvath wrote:

>  Our neighbor saw a hawk get one of our Rhode Island Red Chickens this
>  morning. I was not home at the time but this is the second or third
>  time that a hawk has gotten one of our chickens. I imagine it was a
>  red Shouldered Hawk because I wouldn't think a Cooper's Hawk is big
>  enough, and we live in the woods not red-tailed Habitat. I can pretty
>  much rule out Northern goshawk because of its rarity and its year
>  round attacks.
Stephen Horvath Hyattstown Md.