Bird versus bird - Cooper's Hawk video

[snewpy]

Last weekend we had a Cooper's hawk checking out our coop and we managed to catch it on video. Just a reminder that the extra money you spend on hardware cloth (instead of chicken wire) is completely worth it.

 

[zazouse]

Good job on protecting them.

I do not think that is a coopers hawk at least not like any we have here, ours are very small and will take on a chicken 5 times bigger that itself. It is the one bird i have trouble with but my peafowl have grown up and chase them off a chicken if one of them gets ahold of one my birds, i have 2 little roos that watch the woods like hawks now because they were attact by coopers and them little roos sit in the woods all day long by a tree and watch and watch and watch waiting to get their revenge on the coopers i guess.
This is what our coopers hawks look like.

 

[Chickenfan4life]

Wow. Good decisions always count in the end, and hardware cloth was a good decision. Since the hawk didn't get your ladies, I think it's gorgeous. If it had been otherwise, I'd hate his guts.

 

[Chickenfan4life]

Good job on protecting them.

I do not think that is a coopers hawk at least not like any we have here, ours are very small and will take on a chicken 5 times bigger that itself. It is the one bird i have trouble with but my peafowl have grown up and chase them off a chicken if one of them gets ahold of one my birds, i have 2 little roos that watch the woods like hawks now because they were attact by coopers and them little roos sit in the woods all day long by a tree and watch and watch and watch waiting to get their revenge on the coopers i guess.
This is what our coopers hawks look like.

Zazouse, is that a picture you took, or was it off the internet?

 

[zazouse]

I got the photo off the net so they could see what ours look like.

 

[centrarchid]

Hawk in video is red-tailed hawk. Looks to be a second year bird not yet in full adult feathering.

 

[RaeRae2]

Yes that is a Red Tail. If you le them out of their enclosure, be sure to watch them every second. If you turn your back on them, they will probably end up as food.

 

[centrarchid]

If hawk visits regularly, film reaction of hens. They may be doing somthing to keep hawk from slamming itself into wire trying to get at them. My roosters would go bonkers trying to get at hawk once it was walking on ground although hens will not unless chicks around.

 

[janinepeters]

Nice video! It is a juvenile red tail, not a coopers. Juveniles seem to bother our birds much more often than adults. Maybe because the juveniles get stuck with the marginal habitat and are forced to risk hunting closer to humans, or maybe not many of them live till they get their full adult plumage, so we happen to see more juveniles than adults.

 

[Mattemma]

Nice video.Glad it did not get a free lunch!