I think I can see a yellowish span of beak in all the pics, Winston--they just don't show up as bright yellow till you get close, but they're all light base with a black tip. If it's as big as or bigger than a crow, though, it wouldn't be a sharp-shinned. They're smaller than Cooper's hawks, and Cooper's hawks are just a tad smaller on average than a crow.
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