A Rough-legged Find

Most definetly a

Rough-legged Hawk

Buteo lagopus

ORDER: Accipitriformes

FAMILY: Accipitridae

Monte Vista NWR, Monte Vista, CO

 

I think this might possibly be a juvenile female of the "Light Morph" variety ...

www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Rough-legged_Hawk/overview

Done