https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08Y5DXCZN/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_glt_fabc_FH68861SPVYJ8JP097GP hang on strings everywhere trees bushes poles.I thought about getting a motion activated owl....but wouldn't that scare my chickens along with the hawks???
Interesting, tell us about your results. How long have you had yours up? How many chickens did you lose to hawks before, and how many since, if any? How many do you have hung up? Anything else that might be helpful for someone wanting to use this nethod? Thanks.
Interesting.
Chickadees and redwing black birds among other small birds are great at chasing off eagles and hawks. Keep a bird feeder full near your chickens for chickadees and a hay field tall for red wing black birds. We usually rotate our field cutting till the neighbors corn field gets tall enough to house the black birds. And our fencing on the chicken yard and duck yards (not their free range pasture, their small covered yards for inclement weather) is just barely big enough to allow some finches and chickadees in who share some of our poultry feed helps keep them around and they clean up the spills my chickens and ducks don’t. It’s a win win. We live close to 3 major rivers just south of the rivers freeze line so have a lot of hawks and eagles year round but have only lost one young chicken in our first year to them because of doing this. Also for where you chickens free range make sure their is tall brush, bushes or evergreen trees the chickens can hid under when they see the raptor. I think the spruce trees are their favorites cause the prickles protect them and the branches come all the way to the ground, but they also will hide sometimes in the happy chicken pasture I plant for them (turnips, parsnips, clover, wild peas, radishes, orchard grass, millet and a few other things) It’s about an acre and provides good dense cover and good snacks too.
Use predator tape. I hang it on tree limbs, fences, everywhere. Get it at amazon.
We have lots of chickadees, for sure. However, I don't think I've ever seen Red Wing Blackbirds around our property. I grew up in the north and saw them all the time so I'm very familiar with the bird.... I have a field behind my pasture that has a lot of tall grass and brush which belongs to my neighbor. Never seen a RWBB back there ever. Of course, we have a lot of foxes and stray cats back there which might explain why....
Keep in mind when you consider coverage to think in terms of what the chickens can use and the hawks can’t. Deciduous trees (oaks) provide hawks coverage to sit and watch and wait to swoop. Conifers if the branches go all the way to the ground provide a protective spiky tent to hide in. My wind break of spice and firs is perfect. ‘Mine also love my monstrous wild rose shrubs as the can find bugs and hide from predators in them. Both offer year round protection. They do go under other shrubs too but perfer the ones with thorns or full coverage to the ground but with a hollowed center like a tent. As for man made mine do go under our canoe trailer and RV but not our flat bed. No idea why. The also like under the porch and stables a lot. They don’t like the wood pile but I think that’s cause the cats hang out there hunting mice, though my cats have never bothered the chickens and will some times sneak in the coops and sleep without bothering the chickens. They also love the neighbors corn field once it dries but don’t bother to eat the corn. Mostly hunt grasshoppers and hide from the hawks that are active in the fall in our area. But they won’t go in the wheat, oats or rye fields but will eat the grasses and seeds along the outside or if we pick it for them. Hope that helps. Again we have only lost 1 to a hawks or other bird of prey despite having many. That was 5 years ago. Our biggest loss comes from coons then skunks. But foxes, coyotes, possums and weasels are also present. We have to lock them in tight at night. We are 2 miles from one major river, a mile from another slightly smaller and less than 20 from the Mississippi. Predators are a fact of life for us.
She was not stiff yet. I have no idea how long she was hanging upside down but it couldn't have been more than 3 hours at the worst, likely less. She had no wounds at all. I have no idea what would have scared her to drive her over the fence. She was only 6 months old. My best guess is that she over-exhausted herself struggling in the net in 90+ degree weather. 
