Birds of Prey:0 Me:2

[cmom]

This would be my guess.
https://www.birds-of-north-america.net/Cooper's_Hawk.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chickenhawk_(bird)

 

[FortCluck]

This would be my guess.
https://www.birds-of-north-america.net/Cooper's_Hawk.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chickenhawk_(bird)

I actually don't think it was osprey or a hawk now... Peregrine Falcon is actually what I think I saw. It wasn't brown so I don't know why I just thought it was an Osprey I'm in shock I think. In shock from the beauty I just saw. My adrenaline is through the roof!

I honestly thought it was an owl at first because it was gray and white. But it wasn't plump like an owl.

 

[FortCluck]

I honestly wanted to chicken out and not go near it because it was huge! But not as big as my jersey giants so I pep talked to myself to walk down into the run with it.

I kept calm so I didn't scare it anymore than it already was.

When I walked out of the house I said to it "Drop my bird and I'll help you out!" I instantly grabbed it's attention and it let go of my polish.

 

[cmom]

It may have been a juvenile which look a lot like an osprey. Recently we has an immature bald eagle around. Young Bald Eagle birds get their adult plumage in about five years.

 

[FortCluck]

That would be odd, ospreys are piscivores.

I think it was a falcon... I'm a little bit in shock and my adrenaline is through the roof. I don't know why I would think it was a hawk because it wasn't brown... It was actually gray and white. I actually thought that it was an owl when I first saw it but it wasn't pump like an owl and didn't look like an owl when I got close up.

It was a complete adrenaline rush to get close to an animal that is as magnificent as that one was!

It was massive and I was a little bit hesitant to go near it, but I thought in my head you have Jersey Giants and this has nothing on them!

 

[FortCluck]

It may have been a juvenile which look a lot like an osprey. Recently we has an immature bald eagle around. Young Bald Eagle birds get their adult plumage in about five years.

It was beautiful! I absolutely love birds and it doesn't matter if they are birds of prey or chickens. I just think that all of them are so fascinating.

Phewwww that's enough excitement for today.

Now I hope I can find my Polish chicken because I haven't seen her since I saved her life. She ran off when I was getting the bird out of the fenced-in area.

 

[FortCluck]

It may have been a juvenile which look a lot like an osprey. Recently we has an immature bald eagle around. Young Bald Eagle birds get their adult plumage in about five years.

My friend has eagles on their pond and they have juveniles a lot. They showe pics all the time of them.

 

[ColtHandorf]

Congrats on saving her. I'd be shocked if it was a Peregrin Falcon. They are usually much more adept at taking prey in flight rather than off the ground. Perhaps is was a juvenile. It wasn't a Goshawk was it?

 

[FortCluck]

Congrats on saving her. I'd be shocked if it was a Peregrin Falcon. They are usually much more adept at taking prey in flight rather than off the ground. Perhaps is was a juvenile. It wasn't a Goshawk was it?

It could be I'm in Virginia, it was definitely gray and white... And beautiful.

It looked like my Polish was fighting back when I walked outside making it hard for it to take off.

I don't know where my polish went

I have 21 chicks in a 30x40 ft dog kennel so I'm glad it didn't go after them, but that has a lot of fishing line. The chicks all hid in their coop, I went out there and told them how smart they are.

 

[FortCluck]

I'm not very good at identifying birds besides the coloring I see. It all happened so fast that I wasn't thinking about more than helping the bird of prey get out of my fenced in run. I didn't want it to get injured even if it did probably injure my polish.