Then I heard screeching!  Here’s the other hawk:

Now, I know without question that the second bird is a Red-Tailed Hawk.  I know this because he took off and I could see under his wings.

Do you see the brown bit along the top of his wings?  That’s called a “patagial bar.”  In the other hawks it’s either dark along with the rest of the wing, white or striped.  The Red-Tailed Hawk is the only raptor (in my guidebook) that has a dark patagial bar without the rest of the wing also being dark.

These birds are so fantastic when they fly that even an imperfect picture like the one above is good enough to post.  So, if the first bird and the second bird both look like different pictures in the same guidebook of Red-Tailed Hawks, can they both be Red-Tailed Hawks?