Poor scared hens!

Yaya, what's a turkey hawk? I've been searching the internet and can't find it. I'm thinking that it might be a local nickname....something I'm fascinated with.

It's really hard to tell from just one photo. There are a bunch of raptors that look alike and sometimes having additional perspective helps.

I generally use Cornell's All About Birds site to check out pictures. They have helpful comparisons.

Cooper's and Sharp-Shinned are very similar looking too, with the Sharpie being smaller. The eye is the key here but we can't see that in this picture.

I see hawks quite often here....mostly the Red Tail and Coopers. I've started hanging my bird feeders in trees or the midst of a shrub bed so that they have a good chance of escape.

YaYa...I just remembered that the Coopers hawk is sometimes called a Chicken hawk....do you think that might be what you know as the Turkey hawk?

Yep, the chickens are rightfully anxious about this fellow.

I see you're in the Pacific NW? Please correct me if I interpreted that incorrectly. A very important part of bird IDing is to know the location.

This is a juvenile hawk which makes IDing difficult without seeing the full front and the tail.

The massiveness of this bird, along with the thick legs and huge talons (and bill) indicate this is not a Cooper's Hawk. But I cannot rule out the Accipiter genus here. I cannot see the tail. Back to that in a sec.....

As for Buteos, Western Red-tailed Hawks are usually more marked than their Eastern counterpart and this bird is quite heavily marked down the front side. Perhaps too much for a Red-tailed Hawk (they usually have a white upper chest, not streaked).

The front markings could reflect a Red-shouldered Hawk juvenile, but I don't see the upperwing barring that is indicative of a Red-shouldered (and are they even in your range?). My readings say no.

Back to the Accipiters..... a 1st year Northern Goshawk is a possibility in your range. I would expect to see less of a solid brown upperwing, though, as the juvie Goshawks have a lot of white mixed in with their brown upperparts and also usually have a pronounced white supercilium above the eye. A Cooper's Hawk (smaller, too small- also would have lighter plumage in the head and back. This bird is dark brown).

It's not a falcon at all.....

Ferruginous Hawks do not show much streaking, even as youngsters.....

Rough-legged Hawks just don't look like that at all and have feathered tarsi......

The best I can do off this photo is juvenile Red-tailed Hawk, but I don't like those upper chest streaks for a Red-tailed. Since I cannot fully rule out a first year Northern Goshawk from this photo, I'd say it's one of the two. It just looks too bulky to be a Coop. If I could see the tail I could ID it.