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  1. burtojm

    11 raptors attacking my chickens this morning!

    Quote: Ospreys eat fish, and don't hunt in groups Man, I'm stumped on this one. What birds of prey native to Alabama DO hunt in groups though? I've tried to figure this one out but I'm still coming up short.
  2. burtojm

    11 raptors attacking my chickens this morning!

    I just watched a youtube video of an Osprey flying and it did kind of look like what I saw this morning. There were so many I'm just scared that when I get home I won't have any chickens left. The only thing that keeps me a little positive is our Husky/Aust Shep mix. He will attack anything...
  3. burtojm

    11 raptors attacking my chickens this morning!

    Quote: Hmmmm. Yea this does sound like what I saw. They were flying to and from a giant tree and the end of my pasture overlooking my pond so yea there is water there. I need to look up a youtube video of the flight motions and see if it looks like what I saw.
  4. burtojm

    11 raptors attacking my chickens this morning!

    Yes I guess they could have been. One more thing, their feet/claws whatever were an orange color. Like I said one of them flew so close over my head I could have almost grabbed him. That does sounds like behavior of a young bird. There were mostly smaller ones but there were a couple really...
  5. burtojm

    11 raptors attacking my chickens this morning!

    No these are not buzzards. I know what a buzzard looks like. There are brown/black speckled on white. You can see their claws hanging when they fly overheard and they are smaller. They are definitely a bird of prey with claws.
  6. burtojm

    11 raptors attacking my chickens this morning!

    First off, I'm located in Alabama. I was leaving for work this morning and I counted 11 birds of prey first circling, then diving into my front yard and pasture attacking my chickens. They were attacking mostly 1-2 month old baby chicks but there were a couple of BIG birds that had my adult...
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