RIP little drake! 😟

[WannaBeHillBilly]

Your poor flock is definitely in shock. Maybe think about a pellet gun if you don’t have a shotgun.
We have some pretty large raptors that swoop in around my place often and they are just frightening.

You can say that! - I had Pompom Duck sitting in my lap just a minute ago. She never did that before! And the White Ducks were hugging my rubber boots…
Yeah, pellet gun just to "scare away" that bird.

 

[Jpat]

I am 6'4" (193cm) tall and that thing scared me! It came into arms reach several times. That bird was the same size as a full grown duck, and i think it was a red shouldered hawk:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red-shouldered_hawkIf you play the call, that was what i heart…

cant beleive it was so close! its hungry.

 

[Beaglegal]

No flat land at all and building a pen on a hillsite....? And then the money question, a pen for 28 ducks would have to be huge, especially because my ducks are used to have a lot of space -a lot of.
I will set up more little huts to provide cover and draw lines from the house to the trees and other anchor points and attach reflective flags. Just try to make it as un-attractive for that bird as possible. - Where are my crow-friends?!? Damn Winter!

We had a hawk problem this fall, it took 2 chicks, attacked another one that my husband saved. Then it started coming after our adult chickens and my rooster attacked. The hawk laid dazed for several minutes and then flew off. Hasn’t been back... can you get a guard bird of some kind?

 

[Beaglegal]

Please get an emu

But like an emu with a knife

 

[Jpat]

If i get new ducklings this spring, my wife threatened me with sleeping in the duck house, if i get an Emu, … i don't know what will happen, seriously! All i know is it will be painfull!

ide sleep in the duckhouse

 

[kcan2]

You can say that! - I had Pompom Duck sitting in my lap just a minute ago. She never did that before! And the White Ducks were hugging my rubber boots…
Yeah, pellet gun just to "scare away" that bird.

Poor baby! What a cocky hawk, that would enrage me too!

But like an emu with a knife

I vote for a Chuck Norris emu

keep all the ducks in your living room

In the absence of chuck Norris emu, personally, this would be my second choice, your wife not like it tho

 

[shawluvsbirds]

I rarely see a crow around here. But in the summer months I love having the purple Martins around. They sound the alarm when hawks are nearby. . and I've seen them flock together and chase them away.

 

[casportpony]

I know triple S... Just need a gun! That btard was back a minute ago!

 

[WannaBeHillBilly]

I don’t have a pen just their houses an little over half acre fenced I am keeping mine all 34 down close to the house right now since it’s so open in the largest part of their fenced area. Yes I am paranoid. I have made my property pretty tacky hanging predator tape all over my flocks area. Hoping it will help deter the hawks we have here.

It happened just five meters (15') away from the house! - During the summer this area is covered by tree branches, but now - no leaves. When i scared the hawk away it almost crashed into the trees, because i was coming from the open side, but then it turned around and came back towards me.

 

[WannaBeHillBilly]

I know that a lot of folks around here swear by donkeys and Great Pyrenees dogs to protect livestock from the coyotes , bobcats , wild hogs and such around . But that hawk probably wouldn’t even care about them they way it came straight on after you.

I am 6'4" (193cm) tall and that thing scared me! It came into arms reach several times. That bird was the same size as a full grown duck, and i think it was a red shouldered hawk:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red-shouldered_hawkIf you play the call, that was what i heart…