Dea and Tweeters,
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This looks a lot like the "partial albino" Red Tail that Nate Chappell spotted during our CBC count on Saturday at the same location you mentioned.? I'm sure it's the same bird, and it looks even whiter than your photos show.? When perched the bird's back was white with a scattering of brown spots and a stunning red tail.
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Thanks for the photo!
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-Rolan

Rolan Nelson
Fircrest, WA
rnbuffle at yahoo.com

--- On Mon, 12/22/08, birdmandea at aol.com <birdmandea at aol.com> wrote:

From: birdmandea at aol.com <birdmandea at aol.com>
Subject: [Tweeters] Hawk ID
To: tweeters at u.washington.edu
Date: Monday, December 22, 2008, 6:36 AM


Greetings,
OK, we are all snowed in and I am sorting through pictures I just took in Florida a couple weeks ago. I took these two hawk pictures near the Chamber's Creek Dam ( South Puget Sound area) a few days ago and I can not ID this hawk. I want to say juvenile, light phase? Red Tailed Hawk. Any Suggestions?

http://www.flickr.com/photos/25348030 at N07/3128363116/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/25348030 at N07/3127535081/

Thank you in advance!
Take care
Dea Just
Steilacoom, Washington





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