A brazen hawk and a hungry black snake

[tlcmurphy]

I was told the only place without snakes is the Arctic. I’m shopping for snow shoes.

And frozen chicken?
Also Alaska and Hawaii if I’m not mistaken.

 

[z3lda3]

https://www.google.com/search?sca_e...bZTCS8Q0pQJegQIHBAB&biw=2133&bih=1021&dpr=0.9

I hit like so you’d know I did watch it but . My snake was thicker and going straight up. My legs are still jello.

 

[z3lda3]

And frozen chicken?
Also Alaska and Hawaii if I’m not mistaken.

Hey! I could do Hawaii!!

 

[tlcmurphy]

Hey! I could do Hawaii!!

Me too

 

[tlcmurphy]

I hit like so you’d know I did watch it but . My snake was thicker and going straight up. My legs are still jello.

My legs would be in another county post haste.

 

[Krugerrand]

I hit like so you’d know I did watch it but . My snake was thicker and going straight up. My legs are still jello.

Not my video, just sharing.

My chickens are completely encased in 1/2" hardware cloth. Nothing should get through that unless it's small enough for them to eat.

I've lived in my house for 22 years now and have yet to see a snake in the yard. I wouldn't mind some smaller ones to keep the rodent population down ( and thus the tick population.)

 

[z3lda3]

Not my video, just sharing.

My chickens are completely encased in 1/2" hardware cloth. Nothing should get through that unless it's small enough for them to eat.

Yeah mine are enclosed in coop and hardwire sheets. But snakes are sneaky little suckers. I don’t trust them.

 

[Indio Gigante Lover]

Hawks can be brazen for sure! I recently posted a hawk attack like I'd never seen before in another thread -

I've just learned to never underestimate a desperately hungry hawk! Thu around noon I went out back & not a chicken anywhere out in the big run - I checked to make sure their auto door had opened, it had, but they were all huddled inside so I knew a hawk was around, even though I looked up & into trees, as I have total tree cover like you do, but couldn't see it. I also have a smaller pen with a couple 2 1/2 mo old birds in it. It's covered on the top with 1/2" plastic poly, but the piece of poly was odd shaped, so there was about a 4" gap on 1 corner, but since grow-out birds were only in it during the day, I never worried about it. I looked in that pen & there was the hawk in there! It was a juvenile red tail, not much bigger than the chickens in there & had killed 1. It must have been so desperately hungry that it took a chance on hopping down that small hole in the top. I would have liked to try to catch it & relocate it far away, but when it saw me coming towards pen it looked at me & threateningly opened it's beak at me. I managed to get pen door open & it took off.

I'd always known hawks to swoop down & grab prey, so this was something totally new to me! It's changed my whole perspective on what's safe from hawks.