Okay, I'm sold that it's a red-shouldered, not a red-tail.

There's a surreal quality to this because I've been trying for -ages- 
to get a good red-shouldered picture, only to be thwarted at every 
attempt.  In the meantime, there's been one hanging out in our yard 
off and on for more than a year now, and I've gotten to the point 
where I ignore it most of the time because it's just the same old 
red-tail.

In other words, I'm rarely so happy as to be this wrong about something.

I should also mention that Bruce Parfit tried to flag me to this 
being an immature red-shouldered back in November and I was convinced 
that he was wrong about it at the time.

I clearly should have paid more attention :).

Thanks!

--julie
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