Ponyiqandhens2
Songster
A heads up.i knew my rooster was confused the last 2 days.. we normally have red tail and red shouldered hawks, kites, kestrals, occassional bald eagles, turkey vultures..Timmy has a strong warning when he sees those..we also get lots of cow birds and egrets..wegot a ton of rain the last couple days..the last couple days i have seen an endangered crane and a heron that swooped in pretty low and landed in the water. I was unaware they would eat a chick..timmy did the strangest sounds not his normal alert.. i left to gocheck horses and lost my blue ameraucana juvenile (8 weeks old) i asked the wildlife and fishery guy that lives on my road and he said its rare but they will eat younger chicks or ducklings..and they will follow one they dont necessarily swoop but will walk up to a nest or roost..learned something new.. weonly see them a couple times a year..the doves were out a bunch of song birds and the kites...but it was interesting to learn