California to SauquoitA Hawk’s Coast-to-Coast Journey | News [Video]

CHADWICKS, N.Y. — It started out as a normal journey for Viktor Karpovitch.

The tractor trailer driver from Sauquoit was on his way from New York to California, a normal trip for him.

But it wasn’t until he stopped for gas at a rest area in Iowa that the trip took an unexpected turn.

“As I am walking to get fuel, I see a big bird by a garbage can. So, I look at it just out of curiosity, and it was windy so, I really wasn’t sure if it was dead or alive, so I had to check it out, then I saw it’s wing move,” he said. 

It was a red tail hawk.

Another trucker told Karpovitch that he had hit it some 70 miles earlier.

Karpovitch went inside, purchased a hoodie, which he wrapped the bird in, and set back on his way to California.

“For the first two days, just like a …