Monday, 21 January 2013

[Maine-birds] Could I have seen a Red-shouldered Hawk soaring over Portland?

I was in my car but saw a medium-sized hawk being harassed by crows as it was soaring.  i pulled over and got my binocs on it...noticed immediately it had white "windows" on the outer portion of the wings.  tail was splayed open but i did not see barring (neither did i see any red).  My default was it was a red-tailed, but the white panels at the end of the wings threw me a bit.  Wrong season for Red-shouldered?

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