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 Visit from a Hawk
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01/21/14 05:30 PM
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Joined: Nov 2011
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My stand is pink camo
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Kickingbird
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Walked in my backyard and there sits a hawk   [/URL]
I will take a good rain or a new calf whenever I can get it -Jack Ratjen
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Re: Visit from a Hawk
[Re: My stand is pink camo]
#4924330
01/21/14 06:58 PM
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Spiderman
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If you have a bird feeder he is there for them.
Doves are favorite food but will eat songbirds when times are tough.
Either a Coopers Hawk or Sharp Shin.
Spiderman
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Re: Visit from a Hawk
[Re: My stand is pink camo]
#4924591
01/21/14 08:51 PM
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Erathkid
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Cool creatures. I love Raptors. We see them regularly chasing Dove around our house. Cool when they strike one, feathers everywhere.
Life is too short, as is. Don't chance it.
Don't text and drive.
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Re: Visit from a Hawk
[Re: My stand is pink camo]
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01/21/14 08:55 PM
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dogcatcher
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When we had a lot of quail, we had a hawk that used to sit in a tree near the feeders waiting for the quail to make their morning rounds. We got some old bed springs, set them on cinder blocks, the quail could come from the tree/brush line and be under the bed springs in seconds. The hawk finally moved on after we set that up.
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Re: Visit from a Hawk
[Re: My stand is pink camo]
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01/21/14 09:36 PM
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ChadTRG42
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Nice! I was laying prone hunting a few years ago in the open on a slight rise over looking an area, and I got buzzed by a hawk. He flew about 3 feet over the top of me. Scared the poo out of me when he broke the silence, but it was pretty cool.
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Re: Visit from a Hawk
[Re: My stand is pink camo]
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01/22/14 01:38 AM
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Erathkid
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This might be "off topic" but I don't care, give me fifty lashes now. The other night I was at the campfire and a small Owl flew down beside me and just hopped around in the ashes of the unlit firepit. He was about 6-8 inches tall with small ears. He flew up in a branch over my head and just sat there staring at me. I think it was a "Screech owl". Anyway, it was rather bizarre at the time. Nature at it's finest. I love it.
Life is too short, as is. Don't chance it.
Don't text and drive.
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Re: Visit from a Hawk
[Re: My stand is pink camo]
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01/22/14 03:46 AM
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Halfadozen
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A pair of redtails have now taken 8 hens in the last week. Funny is that they will not hit the roosters, only hens. Now I am down to only 4 fresh eggs a day. I guess I will keep them in the coop from here on out.
Freedom is a fragile thing ...Those who have known freedom, and then lost it, have never known it again.
-- Ronald Reagan
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Re: Visit from a Hawk
[Re: My stand is pink camo]
#4926258
01/22/14 04:12 PM
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Joined: Sep 2004
Posts: 1,636
AdvTX
Pro Tracker
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It's a coopers hawk I think
I told my neighbor that a hawk was watching my hens last Sunday and Monday morning it got 1 of his.
Bow Only
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Re: Visit from a Hawk
[Re: My stand is pink camo]
#4926279
01/22/14 04:19 PM
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jdk1985
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cool.
Had a sparrow-ish bird fly through my duck blind Monday. Scared poo out of me.
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Re: Visit from a Hawk
[Re: My stand is pink camo]
#4926298
01/22/14 04:26 PM
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Chief Joe
THF Trophy Hunter
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"It is the same boiling water that softens the rice, which hardens the egg." It's not always about the circumstances, but what you are made of....
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Re: Visit from a Hawk
[Re: My stand is pink camo]
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01/22/14 09:30 PM
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Joined: Aug 2013
Posts: 494
817cd
Bird Dog
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Bird Dog
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I had a kestrel hawk swap down on my eyes when i was bowhunting musta thought they were small bird wings or something. Almost fell out of the blind. Talons where a few inches from my face before I swung my bow up to deter him. Dropped all my arrows.
Never used photoshop and never will. Photoshop is for liberals.
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Re: Visit from a Hawk
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01/31/14 12:20 PM
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Joined: Sep 2012
Posts: 149
J Herrera
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Woodsman
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Once it gets a food source....it won't leave.
Thanks,
John
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Re: Visit from a Hawk
[Re: jdk1985]
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01/31/14 12:30 PM
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Stub
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cool.
Had a sparrow-ish bird fly through my duck blind Monday. Scared poo out of me. 
  “I never forget a face—but in your case, I’ll be glad to make an exception.” —Groucho Marx
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Re: Visit from a Hawk
[Re: My stand is pink camo]
#4947642
02/01/14 07:45 PM
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fishfree
Tracker
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nice!
Saw a red tailed hawk this am lots of dove in the neighborhood
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Re: Visit from a Hawk
[Re: My stand is pink camo]
#4947685
02/01/14 08:33 PM
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Posts: 528
fishfree
Tracker
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 Cooper from a year ago. Enjoying a cold lunch buffet of chilled dove on my front side walk.
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