I feel for Stake or Sally because the mountains of Central Pa. curve East creating a kind of vortex from the wind.
These vortexes' benefits are not lost on America's hawks who use them to reduce the effort needed to gain altitude or soar to high altitudes before striking out across country and glide without needing to flap their wings. So twice each year (Early Fall and again in late Winter) Central Pennsylvania becomes hawk central. Foghorn Leghorn's little feathered friend, Henry the Chicken Hawk will confirm this, don't take my word for it.
Not only is it illegal to kill a hawk it is also illegal to harass one. So you best not say BOO! to loud at a hawk or you may be making little ones out of big ones on top of Uncle Sugar's rock pile.
By The Way, Yesterday I saw my first DHLS drone overhead. I doubt in my mind that this drone was tasked with finding chicken killing hawks as much as its operator was interested in citizens like us taking Vice President Joe Beiden's advice and loosing a couple of shotgun blast skyward to scare away danger.
Here is some sage advise from a 60+ year chicken veteran who has been there and seen it. If you decide to install an owl pole like the one shown with a hot wire and a ground wire running across the top,
DO NOT INSTALL IT WHERE IT CAN BE SEEN AT ANY TIME FROM THE HIGHWAY OR FROM THE PROPERTY OF PAIN IN THE NECK NEIGHBORS.
This dodge worked until the Game Wardens caught on. For 20 years they were still looking for a steel trap set on top of a pole and targeted at owls. The game wardens didn't realize that some backyard chicken fanciers had 240 volts of electricity running to the perch.
The design shown will shock or kill every song bird that decides to stop and rest a spell to favor you with a song. Leave about three to four inches between the end of the ground wire and the start of the hot wire. That way a mocking bird or other small bird will only have one foot on a wire and the other foot off. It then requires both feet of a small bird to complete the circuit, something that is unlikely, larger birds will not be so lucky. It will work like a Swiss watch on owls but I have never seen it work on hawks, but there is always a first time.
These vortexes' benefits are not lost on America's hawks who use them to reduce the effort needed to gain altitude or soar to high altitudes before striking out across country and glide without needing to flap their wings. So twice each year (Early Fall and again in late Winter) Central Pennsylvania becomes hawk central. Foghorn Leghorn's little feathered friend, Henry the Chicken Hawk will confirm this, don't take my word for it.
Not only is it illegal to kill a hawk it is also illegal to harass one. So you best not say BOO! to loud at a hawk or you may be making little ones out of big ones on top of Uncle Sugar's rock pile.
By The Way, Yesterday I saw my first DHLS drone overhead. I doubt in my mind that this drone was tasked with finding chicken killing hawks as much as its operator was interested in citizens like us taking Vice President Joe Beiden's advice and loosing a couple of shotgun blast skyward to scare away danger.
Here is some sage advise from a 60+ year chicken veteran who has been there and seen it. If you decide to install an owl pole like the one shown with a hot wire and a ground wire running across the top,
DO NOT INSTALL IT WHERE IT CAN BE SEEN AT ANY TIME FROM THE HIGHWAY OR FROM THE PROPERTY OF PAIN IN THE NECK NEIGHBORS.
This dodge worked until the Game Wardens caught on. For 20 years they were still looking for a steel trap set on top of a pole and targeted at owls. The game wardens didn't realize that some backyard chicken fanciers had 240 volts of electricity running to the perch.
The design shown will shock or kill every song bird that decides to stop and rest a spell to favor you with a song. Leave about three to four inches between the end of the ground wire and the start of the hot wire. That way a mocking bird or other small bird will only have one foot on a wire and the other foot off. It then requires both feet of a small bird to complete the circuit, something that is unlikely, larger birds will not be so lucky. It will work like a Swiss watch on owls but I have never seen it work on hawks, but there is always a first time.
