This was my 2nd of 6 eventual encounters with Short-tailed Hawks on this trip. Like the previous bird, this is an immature light-morph bird.

This bird was sighted just as you turn off the main refuge road going towards Royal Palm Hammock and the Anhinga Trail. There was an adult light-morph bird seen in this area as well, soaring very high. Though this image isn't sharp, the dark secondaries are evident.

Only my last sighting of this bird, near Naples, was a dark-morph.