![A Cooper’s hawk somehow found its way into the Library of Congress in Washington, D,C,. [Photo by Abby Brack/Library of Congress/NPR]](../../../../wp-content/uploads/2011/01/coopers_hawk_loc_1.jpg "hawk-loc-standing")
Cicero envisioned paradise as a library in a garden. This week his vision could be amended to include a hawk in the library. A Cooper’s hawk (above) somehow found its way into the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C. It perches near the top of the library’s magnificent dome, and from time to time it circles over the main reading room. The bird is a juvenile female, and her only repast in six days was a frozen quail. Falconers will try to net the bird today so she can be released outdoors. (Below) The hawk is seen circling beneath a Edwin Blashfield mural restored recently in the dome of the Library of Congress. [Photos by Abby Brack/Library of Congress/NPR]
![A Cooper’s hawk is seen circling beneath a Edwin Blashfield mural restored recently in the dome of the Library of Congress. [Photo by Abby Brack/Library of Congress/NPR]](../../../../wp-content/uploads/2011/01/coopers_hawk_loc_2.jpg "hawk-loc-dome")
![Gustave Caillebotte. Paris Street, Rainy Day (La Place de l’Europe, temps de pluie). 1877. Oil on canvas. Art Institute of Chicago. [Source: Wikimedia Commons]](../../../../wp-content/uploads/2009/02/gustave_caillebotte_paris_street_rainy_day_1877_wiki.jpg "gustave_caillebotte_paris_street_rainy_day")
![Fog at Isle Royale [Source: wildmengoneborneo.com]](../../../../wp-content/uploads/2008/04/isle_royale_fog.jpg "Fog at Isle Royale [Source: wildmengoneborneo.com]")
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