[va-bird] Red-Shouldered Hawk and cars

Around noon, I left my office at the University of Mary Washington and
went to my truck in a rather quiet parking lot behind a building.  The
lot is surrounded on the other sides by forested areas.  I was the only
person there.  As I went to get into my truck, I noticed a
Red-shouldered Hawk sitting on top of a car in the corner of the small
lot, maybe 40 feet away.  As I watched, it jumped back and forth between
roofs of two cars.  When I approached slowly, and it flew off into the
woods in stages.  

I didn't think any more of it until about 5:30 when I was coming home
from the grocery store on a fairly busy street (College Avenue) and
noticed a Red-Shouldered Hawk sitting atop a car in the parking lot
shared by a framing store and restaurant.  As I passed slowly, it jumped
to the roof of the car next to the one it was on.  

Has anyone else seen this behavior?  I assume it was seeing its
reflection in the roof, nice and clean perhaps after the rain.  

Can't say I like the idea of the hawk being attracted to cars though. 
Doesn't bode well.

Jim

James E. Goehring
Department of Classics, Philosophy, and Religion
University of Mary Washington 
Fredericksburg, VA 22401


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