Photo: Diane Edwardson, December 23, 2011. Definitely not a Red Tailed Hawk (its tail had vertical stripes); kind of large to be a Cooper's Hawk; it might be a Red Shouldered Hawk. (Click on photos to enlarge.)
Photo: Diane Edwardson, December 23, 2011. It had red shoulders and back, but its head looks a lot like a Red Shouldered Hawk documented in 2008.
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