A “Marlin hauke,” if I’m reading Thomas Hariot correctly. His 1588 Brief and True Report of the New Found Land of Virginia is the first recorded account of bird-watching in North America, though of course the locals had been doing it for thousands of years already.
The Merlin (Pigeon Hawk, Lady Hawk) would have been familiar to Europeans, btw. They are holarctic, meaning the whole northern hemisphere (more or less).
This bird (September 27) was in the same tree as the last Merlin (August 29) I saw.
Backyard and Beyond 
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