Tom,

Thanks for the reference. We have a copy of their "Peterson's Guide to
Hawks," with itsy bitsy black & white photos. Will try to get the Photo
Guide. What the hay, Mother' Days coming up.

It looks like we will have plenty of opportunity to ID them more positively
as they are in the process of building a nest next door.

Sue




> you're probably right..but, check out Ch. 7 p. 182 in
> A Photographic Guide to N. American Raptors, by Wheeler & Clark
> (best spent $29.95 of your hard-earned cash you'll ever make..)
> and you will see the most confusing comparison of a dark
> morph Rough leg and a Harlan's...actual photographs..not
> artist renderings..
>
> I once saw, on my way back down from Diamond Point counting hawks
> a stunning dark morph redtail..not a Harlan's, like the picture
> lower left corner of p. 96...coal black with an orange banded
> tail..AMAZING...(on a phone pole just west of Cle Elem)
>
> Tom
>
>