[EBB Sightings] Red Shouldered Hawk drinking, Walnut Creek

Leaving my home yesterday around 6.30pm on Summit Rd in Walnut Creek, I 
came upon quite a sight. Where Summit  Rd leaves Lakewood Circle and 
climbs a hill, a small seep/spring runs down the edge of the road for 
about 30 ft - the road at this point is approximately the width of a 
car, around 6-8 ft. Passing other cars has to be done by pulling into 
neighboring driveways. Going down the hill towards Lakewood taking a 
drink of water at the seep was a very large, somewhat ruffled, immature 
Red Shouldered Hawk (we believe). It was facing away from the center of 
the road and so distinguishing features were its back and tail. Color 
was mottled/checkerboard dark chocolate grown with tail that had 
obvious multibanding pattern. No obvious signs of typical red shoulders 
were visible that I can recall.

Even more remarkable was the fact as we approached the hawk in our car, 
it took absolutely no notice of us and continued to drink. In fact it 
stayed right where it was as we inched past - my wife could have leaned 
out the window and touched the bird! The bird showed no signs of being 
injured and had disappeared on our return.

Curious to know if others have had similar hawk experiences - closest 
in past I've usually gotten to a resting hawk has been around 25 yds or 
more. We are assuming (though this may not be always the case) this was 
an immature who did not know better.

David Hutton