Coopers Hawk Working Barn Area Hard

[casportpony]

I just made a much better video of GHO feeding on carcass in barn. Trying to figure out how to edit for purpose of uploading to youtube.

Check out this:
https://www.nchsoftware.com/videopad/index.html

 

[centrarchid]

Check out this:
https://www.nchsoftware.com/videopad/index.html

Thanks, it took me a while to figure out the file had to be processed before I could start editing.

 

[casportpony]

Thanks, it took me a while to figure out the file had to be processed before I could start editing.

Oh, that's what you meant!

 

[centrarchid]

After more than 4 months without seeing a Coopers Hawk, an adult female came about 0640 to take either a young Collared Dove or Blue Jay from thicket behind barn. Chickens in barn not riled so action out of their sight. I have about 30 immature chickens the hawk would like so staying on top of that where no young birds out without adults close by. The resident Eastern King Birds were slow to run hawk off. Blue Jays are coming in from all directions making me think they were targeted.

 

[centrarchid]

Looks like Coopers Hawk will be coming in this spring, possibly multiple times per day. Dogs in barn may keep hawk from going after chickens even when all roosters penned. Hawk is coming in after Red-winged Black Birds that are preparing to nest in bamboo patch that more or less wraps around barn. Their appears to be just under 100 male black birds dividing up territories. I have never seen such a concentration. There is very good forage nearby and the bamboo provides good nesting habitat.

This may prove problematic when I run juvenile chickens in chicken tractors this production season. After a couple weeks in the chicken tractors they will be released during the day. The juveniles will spread out further than dogs can fully protect and I do not have enough roosters to run with those juveniles

 

[rjhsh]

buy some cheap pie pans the aluminum ones, hang them in the area the hawk is coming around, they hate the reflective shine from the pans and will SOMETIMES leave that area. Like most predators though they will figure it our most of the times