RSS404 - Fledgling Hawk - I was going to a friend's house yesterday, 06-06-2005, and topped over a blind hill. It's a good thing I was driving slowly, otherwise I would not have had time to miss this baby sitting in the road. I got out and began trying to shoo him off the road, and instead of running or flying away, he threw himself (herself?) down and began screaming for mama and papa. I was afraid I was going to be attacked, but I couldn't just leave him in the road to get run over. Hoping a law enforcement agent wasn't watching me pick up a protected bird, I gently picked it up and took it over into a vacant field near the road and set it down near the trees. I then went back and got my camera and got three nice pictures of this baby. Its body was about the size of the average whole frying chicken that you'd buy in the grocery store.