can anyone identify this hawk seen yesterday at Dutchman Peak?

[Tom Pratum]

We saw several of these yesterday. Could see them well with binocs, but didn’t have the telephoto lens to get a good picture. What I have attached is taken with a 200 mm zoom. One very distinguishing characteristic is white at the end of the tail, which you can’t really see very well in this photo. Any ideas out there? I put it into iNaturalist and it came up with a Red Tail or Goshawk. Sure they are not Red Tails, not sure about the Goshawk suggestion…..


Tom Pratum

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Its hard telling from the photo. Two years ago  I saw a northern harrier up in that area, and 4 or 5 years ago in August a group of us saw some white-tailed kites.  Both have white in their rear area, but the rest of the coloring doesn't match. I'm going up in that area tomorrow on a hike and will have a 600 mm telephoto and if I see any I'll try to get photos.