Why not an immature Red-shouldered Hawk? Streaking on the breast and long wings with rather parallel leading and trailing edges fit. Gray Hawk is chunkier (like a Broad-winged Hawk). There's a picture of an immature on my web site (http://stevewalternature.com/ ), on the Butoes in flight gallery. I don't see crescents to clinch Red-shoulder, but the pictures aren't great. There's an old axiom at hawk watches. If you think you have a Goshawk and it turns out to be a Buteo, then it's a Red-shouldered. Or is it the other way around?
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