Harlan's Red-tailed Hawk?

[johnv]

I forgot to mention, when we were driving along the airport towards Iona Jetty, there was a peculiar looking dark hawk sitting in a tree. We quickly stopped, and I tried to get a picture, but he flew away when we shut the truck door. We looked in our bino's when he was flying, and we both saw that the entire tail was whitish, there wasn't any banding. I'm not sure what else it could be? He was perched in the same tree again on our way back, but again he took off. Comments?

[Gord]

I would say dark morph Harlan's based on the tail description.

Possibly the same bird you saw last year? Great re-find.

The link below is of one from Chilliwack. Tail pattern might be similar even though this is a light morph.

www.bcbirding.proboards3.com/index.cgi?board=identification&action=display&thread=1824