Hi Tweets,

Don, no, Jon, no... heck, who *is* that guy? '-) writes:

>Western lights vary a lot, as do eastern lights, and darks, and every other
>kind of red-tail :) The narrow dark bands makes it sound like a Western,
>though.

What I thought.

(snips)
>It doesn't sound mixed-up enough to be a hybrid, anyway. Maybe a great
>horned chunked its nape and some of the feathers grew back white or you're
>seeing the fluffy white stuff peeking out of damaged feathers, etc.

Like you, I thought disturbed plumage at first, but, no, the pattern was
explicit, and I saw it clearly at close range as the bird perched on a light
standard about 20 meters away and about 5 up facing away in good light. It
was a definite pattern, not flawed plumage: as I said, an inverted dark
equilateral triangle within and circumscribed by a white circle, as classic
a pattern as any to be found in a high-school geometry text.

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