A red-tailed hawk crouching next to Toltec Mound Road in Lonoke County did not fly away when my grandson and his mother drove past. Cody Butler, an England Junior High School eighth-grader, had recently volunteered to photograph birds for the nearby Toltec Mound Archeological State Park, and he knew no healthy hawk would stay put like that. He asked his mother to stop the car while he ran back to investigate.
The bird appeared injured. Cody guessed it had collided with a power line or a car while diving after one of the rabbits he often sees along that stretch of road. As he approached, the hawk walked, hopped, fluttered across a ditch, through a fence and into the state park. It paused, as if to catch its breath, at the edge of a patch of scrub and brush.
Fortunately, Cody knew better than to try to rescue the bird himself.
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