My neighbor took at picture of this bird at our house yesterday afternoon. It looks to me to be an immature red tailed hawk, but the plumage variations always confuse me. Red shouldered instead? Any ideas? It was pretty neat to see this in our residential neighborhood in Albany proper. Guess the local squirrels have a new predator.

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Look who showed up at our Gansevoort feeder at about 4:30 today... an Evening Grosbeak

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Prologue: We made the trip to Rouses Point on Lake Champlain to find the Ivory Gull. When we arrived at noon, we were told that no one had seen it that day. We searched the lake and shore from the breakwater on Stony Point Road and then drove to the other sighting spots where we also had no luck. Went to find the nearby Hawk Owl, and then returned to the breakwater a little after 2:30.