I saw a red tail hawk yesterday about 2:00 PM. My rooster was giving his very distinctive call of warning, and the hens all ran for cover. I then looked up to see it fly directly overhead pretty low, and then away to the east. Beautiful bird. Lost a hen to one before getting my rooster.
I'm worried because I have two juveniles (eight weeks old yesterday) free ranging in the pasture with the adults, but the adults won't let them near them. But they are very instinctively cautious on their own, staying near the fence line and under brush most of the time.
At dusk, when I come out to secure the henhouse (in which all the adults have already put themselves to roost), the two juveniles come running over to me peeping for me to pick them up and put them to roost. They have their own secured enclosure up by one of the hen house windows.
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