Snowy Hawk

Like the rest of the east coast we woke up to a snowy morning.  As I was loading a chunk of wood into the entrance-way stove Carol called me to the other end of the house to point out the hawk perching on a limb of a large Gum tree in the steadily falling snow.  At first glance it seemed to possibly be the same type, if not the same one, as I had photographed the other day.  However after a lot of searching through various bird books my feeling is that this is the Red Shouldered Hawk although I did not get a good photo of the shoulders.  The closest look-alike is the Broad-Winged Hawk but it is much smaller.  So for now I will go with Búteo lineátus, the Red-Shouldered Hawk – still not sure about the previous photo.