Oh my gosh. Just saw a hawk surveying my chicken coop...

[Soon2BChixMom]

I was sitting at the dining room table and looked up just in time to see a hawk glide by my chicken coop/run. It’s about 4’ high. So, when the hawk swooped, he had to go low. He must have come from my roof and then swooped right by their coop before going up and over the shed behind them.
Thank goodness they are securely locked away in their run.

 

[BY Bob]

I've had hawks sit in the tree above my coop and run. It is unnerving.

 

[lazy gardener]

Run covered? Yep, I've had them sit on the top rail of the run. Took the deer netting down last November, only to have a hawk swoop down INTO the run after my birds. So, I covered part of the run with 2 x 4 welded fencing, and blocked off the rest of the run for the winter. Evil creatures have lost their sense of what should be on their menu.

 

[Soon2BChixMom]

My run is covered, so it has no way of getting in (that I know of).
I agree it is very unnerving when you know the hawk is specifically eyeballing your chickens!

 

[BY Bob]

My run is covered with the glass out of old patio doors. I am hopeful the bugger will smash into it some day going after my hens and break his neck. He caught 1 when they were out free ranging 3 years ago and keeps coming back.

 

[Soon2BChixMom]

My run is covered with the glass out of old patio doors. I am hopeful the bugger will smash into it some day going after my hens and break his neck. He caught 1 when they were out free ranging 3 years ago and keeps coming back.

Hopefully it can’t break the glass that would be a mess? I saw a hawk weeks ago befor I got the chickens sitting on my garage roof. I’m sure he was looking for filled mice then. I just don’t want it to think my chickens are a meal!

 

[BY Bob]

You can't break this glass with a hammer. Double paned as well

 

[silly4buttons]

Yesterday a hawk killed one of my chickens I came outside and the girls where freaked out I didn’t see him at first and then the sucker jumped onto the fence and was looking right at me I looked down and saw her I close up that part of the pen for the winter they are all still traumatized I feel like a failure up intill last week I had a rooster intill my neighbor complained I had him for 4 years and never had a problem a week after I rehomed him I get a hawk attack I am so upset sorry for venting

 

[azygous]

I believe hawks are the worst predator. They have no fear of humans, thinking nothing of swooping in for an attack on chickens right at your feet. This has happened to me more than once.

One time I was peeling logs as I was splitting them for firewood, letting the chickens pick out the bark beetle larvae as I pried the bark away from the wood. Literally out of the blue came a hawk, diving down at the panicked chickens right beside me. Luckily, it miscalculated and no one got hurt.

 

[BY Bob]

I am so sorry for your loss. It is devastating.