After the tragedy last week (lost a Golden Comet to a hawk), we reinforced the webbing over the pen until it looked like a soccer net.
The hawk has come around twice since, but got tangled in the web, started to choke, and flew away.
It'll try a few more times before giving up and going back to hunting mice and rats.
(I can't let my folks free range, though there would be a lot of places for them to hide if I did. I'm too close to a main drag. Someone a couple of miles away from me, who's actually on the main drag, had free rangers, and at least three or four of them were hit by cars.)
The hawk has come around twice since, but got tangled in the web, started to choke, and flew away.
It'll try a few more times before giving up and going back to hunting mice and rats.
(I can't let my folks free range, though there would be a lot of places for them to hide if I did. I'm too close to a main drag. Someone a couple of miles away from me, who's actually on the main drag, had free rangers, and at least three or four of them were hit by cars.)