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Strange Hawk Encounter
Strange Hawk Encounter
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birdman
231 posts
Nov 18, 2006
12:24 PM
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Well, this morning I decided to let the birds after locking down for a while and they actually did pretty well for about 10 minutes and then elevated to about 600'with more flying than rolling. 45 minutes later they were above the loft , when out of no where, a cooper comes in for breakfast. He had one in his talons but the bird got free and they elevated again, coming back down about 10 minutes later, only to get attacked again. The same bird, a recessive red, was the target a second time, but escaped again, and they elevated a third time for about 30 minutes before coming back down again.
Now, the hawk was sitting on the pole in my back yard, eyeing the birds in my loft, when this poor recessive red bird, being out of gas, lands no more than 3' from the hawk!
I thought the bird was a gone for sure, but for some strange reason the hawk never attempted to grab the pigeon. I was watching the hawk and pigeon for about 10 minutes, and they were looking at each other like they were buddies, when out of the blue the hawk started making wierd 'hawk talk' to the pigeon. My daughter came outside because she heard the strange hawk noise, looked up and saw the hawk right next to the pigeon, and gave me the look like 'what's going on up there'?
The hawk did eventually move closer to within 2' of the pigeon,... only to get a better look at the birds in my loft! The pigeon must have been either scared out of his mind, or was just plain out of gas and didn't give a crap what happened at this point, or flat out wasn't going to take any more shit from this hawk.
The hawk eventually flew off and I got the recessive red bird in with only a minor scratch from the first attack, but for the life of me, that's the strangest hawk encounter I've ever had. It was so weird that I wanted to share with everybody.
Anybody else ever witness an encounter like this?
Russ
Last Edited by on Jan 21, 2008 8:30 PM
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Electric-man
28 posts
Nov 18, 2006
6:47 PM
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Good story Russ! It must be a good week for the birds though. Hadn't seen a cooper in a month till Mon., I was flying my young birds and out of no where, there he was. Of course it was my most promising youngster he went for.The cooper flew him in to the neighbors brick wall, it sounded like somebody clapped there hands real loud when he hit.The hawk went to the ground for the pigeon, my neighbors two boxers went for the hawk and while they were all squared off to each other, I jumped the fence and snatched my bird.I was screaming and yelling at the dogs, didn't know if they were man-killers or not,but I was getting my bird one way or another! That's the second meal I've cheated that hawk out of!I know my neighbors think I'm a section "8", but I put a lot of heart and soul in these birds. Can't worry about loosing a limb to mean dogs when I got a bird in dire straits!LOL
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MCCORMICKLOFTS
806 posts
Nov 18, 2006
7:17 PM
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That is one heck of an interesting story Russ...lol
I can say I've never seen anything like that, nor heard of anything like that, one for the memory books for sure.
I would bet the coop was a juve and like many predators are instinctively looking for a chase to have control over the situation. It's probably like the "when you encounter a bear" thing, don't run away. The young cooper might have only learned one way to hunt, and that is to chase. Obviously it had never been faced with such a quandry...lol
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birdman
232 posts
Nov 18, 2006
7:56 PM
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Yep, pretty interesting alright. I can't even fully describe the noise the hawk was making but that noise is what made my daughter come outside. She said she heard the noise and thought a baby duck was in our backyard. Kind of sounded like a grunt/quack/whistle all-in-one. And yes Brian, it was a juvenile.
The things we learn from this hobby are PRICELESS!
Russ
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centralvalleylofts
40 posts
Nov 18, 2006
9:12 PM
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if you guys think thats strange if any of you ever livermore,ca. of the hwy 580. as you leave the town off. of
livermore blvd. to the north on the wires their must have been
400 homers and in the middle a red tail hawk with birds 6inches from him. but would not attack then he dove down and
had a pigeon in his talons right back to the pole.and just
started eating and plucking away. but none of the birds on the wires moved. except for the ones on the ground after he grabbed that one. it blew my mind hunter and hunted under an
understanding.steve
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Fr.mike
198 posts
Nov 19, 2006
7:21 PM
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Hay -Centralvally!!Livermore! Wow my boyhood town. went to granada high-Lived on elvira street-partied at del val dam-OOPS-- shouldnt go their !LOL!
Fr. Mike
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parlorfancier916
163 posts
Nov 19, 2006
9:37 PM
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had a bird way back spin and hit a hawk, made the hawk fly away, first and maybe only time I'd see a roller spin and hit a hawk in the air like a torpedo hitting a ship. Of course that bird later on the next month killed itself coming in.
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