One of the inevitable laws of birding. If you see a hawk circling in the distance. It is a Red-tailed hawk.
Remember a few years back Paula Zahn got in a lot of trouble for attempting to remove a hawk’s nest from her co-op...the birds were a huge attraction..there’ be hundreds of people across the street all day with binoculars...IIRC, one of the birds was named “Pale Male”
They’re as common as crows here in southern NJ. Watched one take a squirrel right of my backyard maple tree as easy as it was a Chicken Mc Nugget.
When walking in the park we hear them screeching before we see them.
Could be a woods hawk. They are death on squirrels and birds.