Will a Hawk return to a flock?

[Nigel27]

@aart has a pic of a hawk on a fake owl lol don’t know how well they work. Maybe initially until the hawk realizes it’s fake.

 

[Phantom_k9]

@aart has a pic of a hawk on a fake owl lol don’t know how well they work. Maybe initially until the hawk realizes it’s fake.

you gotta move them often otherwise hawks and other birds will figure out its fake. At least thats what I have heard

 

[DuckDuckSook]

We have red shoulder hawks and red tail hawks here.

 

[Phantom_k9]

unfortunately I have no idea what kind of hawk this was. It looked like a medium sized, barred brown / white hawk. My guesses are a Red Shoulder, Broad Wing, or some species of Falcon. I didn't get any pictures so i'm going off memory. I can cross off the Red Tail and Coopers just because this bird didn't look like either, which I suppose is a good thing.
We have lost a bird to a hawk before. We kept our birds in the coop for a week before letting them back out in the yard. We've had other run ins with hawks before that, but from what I could tell our other roo was able to fight them off. We lost a bird to a hawk after we got rid of said roo.
If there would be an ideal attack, it would be one where the hawk has a near miss and allows our roo to figure out that these guys don't mess around...
We've also gotten a fake owl, and plan to exchange it for some crow decoys latter on.

I don't know if its just coincidental, but after I set up the owl a hawk was flying high above the yard. Just as he crossed the fence line (be it really high in the air) he sorta paused, hanged in the air a bit, and shifted 45 degrees in the other direction.
Could be a coincidence, but I thought this was cool to see...

 

[cmom]

OP's hawk is the one that is important

Ok, I deleted my post.

 

[cmom]

@aart has a pic of a hawk on a fake owl lol don’t know how well they work. Maybe initially until the hawk realizes it’s fake.

Here is the same picture. I found it online.

 

[Nigel27]

Ok, I deleted my post.

I think everyone’s experiences with hawks killing chickens here is useful.