OK, I'll take a crack at it. It looks like a first year Red-shouldered Hawk. The evenly spaced brown streaks on the breast, bill color, eye color , dark back and size are right, and the habitat is right too. Any other possibilities? Al Warfield ----- Original Message ----- From: Ruth Robin To: va-richmond-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Monday, March 05, 2007 12:18 PM Subject: [va-richmond-general] Fwd: ID Help Can anyone help with this identification? Robin Begin forwarded message: From: "Carwile, Vicky" <vcarwile@xxxxxxxx> Date: March 5, 2007 8:38:01 AM EST To: <robin.ruth@xxxxxxxxxxx> Subject: ID Help I am not sure you are the person to send this to but I got your email off the web site.� I got several photos of this�hawk yesterday in my Chester yard.� I tried to identify it using the Internet but can't seem to distinguish it.� He/she was fairly large and simply beautiful.� He/she has been hanging around a while.� I have a backyard habitat so I am guessing the activity attracted it.� I have seen smaller hawks in this area before but have recently purchased a better camera to get photos of the birds.� � Anyhow, I am curious so if you know of someone, or if you can, help identify that would be great. � Vicky Carwile �