Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[BY Bob]

A Friendly Mug

 

[Aussie-Chookmum]

I just texted her, she’s going to try and pop in tonight.

Thanks for the heads up Lozzy.
Took me longer than expected to pop in. Sorry to worry you guys.

 

[Aussie-Chookmum]

Everyone has that 1 Neighbor

Happy Holidays.

I hope no-one in the area suffers from epilepsy!

 

[Grandmas Coop]

Christmas Lights and a Return Visitor

I spent Sunday hanging the outdoor Christmas lights. That included decorating the coop again. It came out well. Aurora decided to pose with the Christmas decoration for which she was clearly their model chicken.

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Here is the coop lit up at dusk.

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Throughout the day as I was working on the lights I could hear the nearly continuous scree of the red tailed hawk. However they never got closer than this.

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Return Visit

I was touching up the paint on the letters of the coop today, as I need to do before every winter, and the ladies were fussing at me. It was like they wanted me to know they were there but it was not the full whiney let us out. I talked to them for a while and all of a sudden they went dead silent.

This one had returned.

No chickens this way.....
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No chickens that way.......
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I guess I'll go and try to kill that sparrow hiding in the trumpet vines.

I did not run it off. I wanted to see it hunt. After watching that video, there is no safe place in my yard other than the complex. Nowhere. The ability that hawk demonstrated dropping down through those vines is scary. Those trumpet vines are the tribes favorite hiding spot. The tribe thinks they are safe there.

They are wrong.

DEAD BIRD in my yard it would be,

 

[Grandmas Coop]

The agility is amazing. I don't think I have ever had one here before. I have not seen this kind of behavior before from a hawk.

I have,

 

[featherhead007]

I really wanted to spend a lovely Christmas with all my birds, ESPECIALLY EMILY. I really do feel so broken-hearted! I think that Jaffar misses her too.

 

[BY Bob]

DEAD BIRD in my yard it would be,

My Dad would do the same. I don't think I can. A week ago, sure. I was that angry and hurt.

Now, it's not afraid of me but somehow I need to discourage it. I need to somehow strap the nerf golf ball gun to my waist. I never have it when the hawk appears.

 

[Grandmas Coop]

You have been missed for sure.

The loss of Sylvie has been very hard.

The hawk continues to operate in my yard. The whole tribe is scared. They live in the complex constantly now. The video from its latest visit shows how talented the hawk is. It's terrifying.

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Bad Boy, Bad Boy, what'cha goin'A do??????

 

[BY Bob]

I have,

What kind of hawks do you have?

 

[RoyalChick]

The agility is amazing. I don't think I have ever had one here before. I have not seen this kind of behavior before from a hawk.

I know, that shocked me. I thought they were more inclined to perch up high and then dive-bomb their prey.