As I drove to church I noticed a red-tailed hawk flying ahead to my right. He was being buzzed and harassed by two blackbirds. Suddenly he swooped lower and to the left, right in front of my vehicle. I thought at first that his maneuver was an effort to evade the pesky blackbirds, but instead he landed upon a dead squirrel on the roadway right in front of me. During the next second his talons gripped the squirrel, I swerved to the right to miss him, and his trajectory and momentum managed to lift him safely off to my left. It was a close call.