[va-bird] Coopers shopping at Home Depot

One of those birding moments as I was heading south on Rt. 1 in Alexandria 
around 1:30pm. Stopped at a red light where Boswell crosses RT. 1 - entrance to 
Home Depot parking lot - a Coopers Hawk came right thru the intersection at 
windshield level (with the green light) - I was able to watch it scatter a 
flock 
of ROck PIgeons in the Home Depot lot but lost it in all the commotion. Just 
as my light turned green, the Coops came back thru the intersection - empty 
taloned, against the light and, miraculously avoiding being intercepted by a 
windshield, flew up to perch in a tree in the vacant lot on the SE corner of 
the 
intersection...after going on to Sherwood Hall Rd. I swung back thru the 
neighborhood to find the hawk had moved over one tree, but was able to park in 
the 
vacant lot and confirm my ID...Rich Rieger

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