It was Gary Starr who saw the bird, not me. Until this morning that is, 
when I went to Ledge Rd. to find it myself. It's pretty darn easy to 
spot being the bright white beacon at the top of a tree that it is. I'm 
not convinced that this is the same bird that has been seen by the Mad 
Birders, though. From the pictures I've seen, that one seems to be much 
more uniformly white while the Cornwall bird has some dark feathers 
around it's back and red feathers on the right side of its tail. But 
maybe the colors vary with these birds from molt to molt. I wonder if 
anyone has any information on that. What is interesting is that Jane 
Stein reported a Leucistic Red-tail on Rt. 30 on Dec. 2 last year at a 
spot about a mile away from where I saw it this morning. That is an 
intriguing similarity in location and timing. 

  --
Ron Payne
Middlebury, VT

On Wed, 16 Nov 2011 19:09:27 -0500, Patti Haynes
  wrote:
El Blanco, as Scott Sainsbury so aptly named the lucistic Red Tailed Hawk
> in April of 2010, was just featured on the CBS local news. Sharon Myers and
> Larry Brown(?) were discussing it and showing video from Addison Co. This
> bird may have it's 'disabilities', just like some of us humans do, but is
> obviously an adaptable survivor. This bird has been seen in Elmore by Larry
> Clarfeld of the North Branch Nature Center, and by Madbirders in June on
> the Caledonia/Washington Co line. El Blanco has been seen most recently by
> Ron Payne and others in Addison Co,
>
> Here's to survivors,
> Patti
> Moretown
>
>