Falcon

[aligarysmom]

Thank you everyone for your input and help. He has been next door eating from the jays nests and after the squirrels. So I’m hoping he realizes there is plenty of other easy prey and doesn’t try the chickens again.

I have to say they are very much aware of everything flying above them now. Lol. Could be a good experience and save their lives from a bigger better pred.

 

[centrarchid]

Look up Accipiter and Buteo. The former in particular is most likely to be your raptor. Calling either a falcon is less accurate than calling a weasel a fox.

 

[aligarysmom]

It’s wasnt either of those. It was a Peregrine falcon. That’s what it was. And still is! I will try to snap a picture. It was not a medium sized bird. I was very surprised it was even attempting to draw down on a chicken. I mean a chick I could see. But they are 12 weeks old. They’re pretty big.

If these are birds YOU have had problems with in the area, you should really post a thread about them. But that’s NOT the bird(s) with which I’m having trouble.

 

[centrarchid]

Show a picture of it. I have an inkling about what species you have and they include the same of concern here.

 

[happyfrenchman]

 

[Backyard Bruce]

Falcons in Oregon are not going to be an issue with chickens. More accurate species ID needed so this does not go down the road of folly.

Interested in the reasoning behind this statement.

 

[centrarchid]

Interested in the reasoning behind this statement.

I am very confident OP and others are using the term falcon interchangeably with hawks. What really drives is home is assertion is the "falcon" is a Peregrine Falcon.

 

[Backyard Bruce]

And that’s where my curiosity starts is why the term “peregrine falcon” sets this as a false identification in your mind.
I ask not to needle along a disagreement but rather to inform myself, and other maybe.
I am certainly no falcon expert but your insistence in this subject suggests that you may at least have some higher knowledge on this subject than most.

 

[centrarchid]

op needs to respond with pic.

 

[Tbanner]

This is what I use to keep the falcons away from my chickens!