How to deal with hawks in the yard?

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Sure thing, @centrarchid I know where that is also!

I think Missouri has to be hawk central of the country. Either they are migrating through in spring or taking up residence permanently. I hear them screaming from the timber around us on a daily basis and in the spring we will find circles of feathers where they take down small migrating birds and eat them in our pasture.

Interesting about using the Game Stag for hawk protection. I've noticed my OEGB roosters are far better hawk alerters than my standards are so I'm not surprised.

Maybe I need a standard Game birds stag....nah, he'd just beat the snot out of the bantams...and the standards. Heck, the Bantam stags beat the snot out of the standard roosters now to the point that I had to separate them.
 
We have a reported 4 eagle nests in our county that are active.

An effective way to get rid of the birds of prey when they start circling my run and pen was discovered by my husband who is an RC pilot. Whenever we see them (hawks) circling, he launches one of his biggest RC planes and climbs to an altitude above the birds of prey and starts circling over them. They hate it. They will keep flying on a wing tip to see 'up' and when they see the bigger 'bird' they take off. It works every time. They don't want to tangle with a larger bird that may have territory rights over them. Injuries in the wild mean almost sure death to the injured party.
 
Just yesterday a red tail came in very fast and was about 2 inches away from a hen. It came in very fast but my 2 great roosters were able to warn the hens to go for cover
 
egyptian geese attack hawks they will take over hawk nests even. Muscovy ducks can handle small hawks.


they are powerfully built birds the fact they could take over such a fierce birds nest shows that.
 
In first video "duck" looks like a goose with angel wing. Raptor it foiled is a Buteo sp.

Second video has a pair of geese ramped up for breeding effort. Such behavior I bet likely only immediately prior to nesting and when eggs in nest.
 
I fully understand the need to not predate various breeds of birds, and that some would hunt simply for fun. But if you are keeping livestock you should be able to defend it.

I do not go out looking for our local chicken hawks, but if they come knocking on my door I take care of business.

I admire them from afar, and regret killing them, but I am not going to watch them choosing which chick to eat while perching on adjacent trees without reaching for my PCP rifle.
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There is no protection order here,
 
microchick said:
We have a reported 4 eagle nests in our county that are active.

An effective way to get rid of the birds of prey when they start circling my run and pen was discovered by my husband who is an RC pilot. Whenever we see them (hawks) circling, he launches one of his biggest RC planes and climbs to an altitude above the birds of prey and starts circling over them. They hate it. They will keep flying on a wing tip to see 'up' and when they see the bigger 'bird' they take off. It works every time. They don't want to tangle with a larger bird that may have territory rights over them. Injuries in the wild mean almost sure death to the injured party.
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Now that is interesting!

Also, I can just hear my husband now: "Honey, I need that expensive drone - it's for the chickens!" :lau
 
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