Without more description, this is just a guess: Red-tailed hawk. The
"necklace" and the common nature of the Red-tail make it a good candidate.

At 09:42 PM 11/27/97 -0900, Sharron Huffman wrote:
>I'm posting this for my friend:
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>>In Seattle, driving South on Elliott, after the Baskin Robbins and before
>>the Denny turn off, on the East side of the street, up in the top of the
>>trees,
>>right outside the 3rd or 4th floor of apartments at the end of Republican
>>sat a hawk last Saturday (the 22nd of November). We were driving along
>>and came to a screeching halt. Being new to this bird watching thing I did
>>NOT have a pair of binoculars in the car, unfortunately. (I do now.) But
>>we got as close as we could on Elliott and then drove around to Queen
>>Anne to get as close as we could up by the apartments. This bird sat
>>there the whole time and was STILL there when we came back that way
>>almost 2 hours later! It would have a super view of the Bay from there
>>and the train bed and the zillions of pigeons. We are sure it was NOT a
>>bald eagle. It seemed too big to be one of the Seattle family of Peregrine
>>Falcons. It had the hawk profile but... I thought the chest looked kind of
>>speckled with a wide low "necklace" like royalty wear, you know the kind
>>that is from shoulder to shoulder, not up around the actual neck. Like I
>>say, I am new at this so bear with me. I hoped maybe someone on
>>Tweeters lives right up there in those apartments and can tell me who is
>>their feathered neighbor?
>>Thanks!
>>Carol Jo cmhorn at halcyon.com
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>Sharron Huffman
>Ketchikan, Alaska "Art is so absorbing. ... It is a sopper-upper."
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Michael B. Brown
Puyallup, Washington
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W-253-841-8733
C-253-208-9588
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