OK, this is a tough one. Today at around 3:00 p.m. on Roberts Road in Hilliard, OH at the westernmost part of Franklin County I saw two hawks sitting on a fence line. I was able to view them for about 2-3 minutes from about 200+ feet from my car with fairly low-powered binoculars. One was mostly white, including the wings, with just a patch of dark coloring on the leading edge of the wings. Underneath was mostly white also with just a band of dark coloring at what might have been the belly band, and the tail was white with only a narrow band of color at the tip. The size of both birds was as large as a Red-Tailed Hawk and they flew similar to the wing beat when they took off. The white one was eating something (looked like a rabbit by the size, but hard to tell from my distance and the state of the prey) and the second one was trying to get in a peck or two. The second one was more a common brown color. I would liken it to a picture in my hawk book of a light morph Ferruginous Hawk. They were obviously together because when one flew, the other followed. Size was pretty much the same. Again in my hawk book (Hawks & Owls of the Great Lakes Region by Chris Earley) the white one looks an awful lot like a picture of a White Morph Gyrfalcon. Now is this possible? Or was I seeing some form of a white morph Ferruginous Hawk? Or are there others that might have seen this pair and have an idea? I looked for a falconer thinking they might have been a trained pair, but they were on private property and noone was around. Even after they flew I saw noone directing or calling them. Wish I could have seen them closer and longer, but birds just don't wait for us slow-witted untrained birders. Any help would be appreciated. And I know you'll have dozens of questions which I should have thought of commenting on. Fire away. I really would like to identify this beautiful pair. Verna Ansel Galloway, OH (Franklin County) ______________________________________________________________________ Ohio-birds mailing list, a service of the Ohio Ornithological Society. Our thanks to Miami University for hosting this mailing list. Additional discussions can be found in our forums, at www.ohiobirds.org/forum/. You can join or leave the list, or change your options, at: http://listserv.muohio.edu/scripts/wa.exe?LIST=OHIO-BIRDS Send questions or comments about the list to: [log in to unmask]