coyote trap worked real good for hawk with pics

[centrarchid]

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Relocating animals with strong homing abilities not practical. It was a waste of gas which gets me riled up. Effort I consider well intentioned but should not involve relocation part may be a legal problem. If need be, then we can look into what restrictions exists for private individuals to relocate animals. I am a biologists and rules are bcoming increasingly strict concerning my abilities to move animals around without specific wording making such moving OK.

 

[jimmythechicken]

i think next time this happens i will just kick my trap in my pond an call it a day.lol

 

[Farmer_Dan]

gosh, I'm glad this thread got bumped. So cool to see a hawk like that up close. I'd love to have a large raptor project going on. Wow, Do you happen to have taken any more pictures of the little guy? I'd love to see them.

 

[little blue]

no that was the only pic we took jimmythechicken is my dad.it was pretty cool looking to see so close

 

[Oldfort_mailman]

It is kinda funny that this post was a yr old and got picked up and the argument resumed like it was the day before. I think it was good of you to release the hawk. Maybe it did come back and maybe it didnt but it was a cool story for you to share with us, especially the pictures. Since you never asked whether it was legal or not i was suprised by all the unecessary arguing over it but i do have one question it seems others failed to care about. How the heck do you get a raptor out of a live trap without losing any limbs?

 

[jimmythechicken]

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it was not hard i used welding gloves to handle the cage an release it he did not want to be close to me as sone as it opened he was gone.lol

 

[RHRanch]

It is illegal to relocate or trap or harass ion any way any bird protected under the migratory bird act, FYI

 

[Shawnee_b]

OK, old post or what it's up and seems a few enjoy hawk pics. Here's a goshawk eating squirrel in my back yard when I still lived in Maine. You can see the tail and piece of meat in it's mouth.

 

[Gmsg01]

We are licensed falconers. When we are looking to trap a passage red tail (this years hatch), we get permission and list a pheasant facitity about an hour and a half from us. They are always happy to have us come and trap and remove one of the hawks

Last year, I took my apprentice, and she kept the fifth bird we trapped in a three hour period. When I don't go to this farm, I can spend HOURS trying to locate, and get the proper paper work to trap a youngster.

One year, we spent about SIX weeks locating a bird. Much prefer the pheasant farm!

Oh- we can't trap and keep ant adult plumage bird. So it is not as simple as just catching any red tail.