7 hawks tryed eating my chicks

[love4mychick]

i was out side cleaning there coop when my chicks were in there temp. pen next to the house playing i heard a loud caw like a big bird would sound like.
i looked up and saw a big hawk that was flying over my head and raceing towards my chicks pen and i was runing to stop the hawk and at the last second i screamed caw to scare it away and it worked

i got to my chicks pen and i looked up and there were propally 7 hawks cirling over the head of my chickens luckly i got there in time with no injurys

 

[amazondoc]

If it was cawing, it was probably a crow. There are very few hawks in this country that hunt together (with the exception being Harris Hawks).

What color were the birds? Where do you live?

 

[amazondoc]

oops, double post -- sorry!

 

[love4mychick]

it was brown and i live in florida

 

[Judy]

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Wonderful! I knew crows chased hawks away but it never occurred to me to make like a crow in a pinch! Good for you!

 

[amazondoc]

Hmmmm, no Harris hawks there. Let me look up the birds in that area.....

 

[love4mychick]

thanks you all for support

 

[amazondoc]

Hmmmmm. Well, as I mentioned most hawks don't hunt together, and hawks don't caw --- OTOH, I don't see another good candidate in FL that's brown......

Here's a list of all the FL birds. You can click on the names to see if any look like the birds you saw --

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Florida_birds

 

[love4mychick]

the one i saw looks like the caraca

 

[amazondoc]

Yikes. Well, it's possible! Caracaras are usually scavengers, but they do sometimes hunt -- and when they do hunt, they sometimes do it in pairs. I dunno about larger groups.

Whatever they were, I hope they don't come back!