Red-tailed hawks are common throughout most of North America and occur in a variety of subspecies and color phases.  Adults have the iconic reddish tail and (usually) dark eyes; juveniles have pale eyes and brownish banded tails.   These birds were photographed near the San Jacinto Wildlife Area and the Colusa National Wildlife Refuge, both in California, near Manhattan, Kansas, in southeastern Arizona, and in New Mexico.
      More photographs of red-tails, mostly sitting on their 'usual' perches (power poles), can be found here, this page shows several red-tails in flight, and another page shows images of 'Harlan's hawk' (a nothern race of the red-tail).

• Canon 10D, 1D Mk. II, 7D, 1D4, or 7D2; 500 mm f4 IS lens or 800 mm IS lens, some with 1.4X or 2X converter and fill-in flash (2004, 2006, 2009-2016)