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This first-cycle light-morph Harlan's Red-tailed Hawk Buteo [jamaicensis] harlani was photographed at the boat ramp at the Calliham unit of Choke Canyon State Park, McMullen county, Texas on January 22, 2012:-





The same day I photographed (through the car windshield...) a dark morph Harlan's on I37 just south of San Antonio:





This first-cycle light-morph Harlan's Red-tailed Hawk Buteo [jamaicensis] harlani was photographed along H35 between Goose Island and Tivoli, Aransas county, Texas on November 11, 2012:-








- the same day I photographed an imtermediate morph Harlan's on River River Road along the Guadalupe River delta, Refugio/Calhoun counties:






This first-cycle light-morph Harlan's Red-tailed Hawk Buteo [jamaicensis] harlani was photographed along H90 east of Hondo, Medina county, Texas on January 13, 2013:-





- note in the distant pic below the passing resemblence to Rough-legged Hawk:



For comparison to the light-morph first-cycles above here is a light-morph adult Harlan's Red-tailed Hawk Buteo [jamaicensis] harlani on March 17, 2003 at Markum Ranch Road, western Tarrant county, Texas; note the pure white throat: