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Buteo lineatus
This smallish hawk was perched on an agave efflorescence near my bird feeder perhaps looking for its next meal.
Whether wheeling over a swamp forest or whistling plaintively from a riverine park, a Red-shouldered Hawk is typically a sign of tall woods and water. It’s one of our most distinctively marked common hawks, with barred reddish-peachy underparts and a strongly banded tail. In flight, translucent crescents near the wingtips help to identify the species at a distance. These forest hawks hunt prey ranging from mice to frogs and snakes. (allaboutbirds.org)
Interestingly, we have red-shoulders in the city, which may speak to the maturity of the "urban forest" here.
An Accipiter (cooper's or sharpie) would be much more slender than this bird, this is an immature red-shouldered. Another dead give-away is the tail. Sharp-shinned at any age don't have white bands on the tail; they have a brown tail with dark bands.
Thanks, JerryMorrow. So you agree with my ID? I'm never quite sure with juveniles.