[va-bird] Sharpie/Red-tailed "interaction"

While working at Long Branch Nature Center in Arlington Saturday afternoon,  
1/29, around 2 PM, I heard a Red-tailed Hawk call overhead. When I heard a  
second call, I looked up to see it looping overhead and, unexpectedly, an  
accipiter looping quite near it, within a few tens of meters. Although neither  
bird seemed to be following or harassing the other, I was surprised to see them 
 
so close to each other and wondered whether the accipiter had provoked  the 
Red-tailed's calls. After two intersecting loops I lost the accipiter. Based  
on 
relative size it must have been a sharpie. Cheers,
 
    Steve Young
    Arlington VA

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