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What do you get when you mix the above with the below? In our case it is 2 dead chicks and an ongoing headache. These beauties are pure killing machines and could present a serious threat to our Laying Hens enterprise.
They are also protected so even if we wanted to we can do nothing to interfere with them, Not sure how we deal with this one, we can't allow the hawk to establish a pattern of hunting our birds but we cannot take any direct action on the bird itself.
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I think the way forward is to provide low shelter in which to feed the birds and put up a scarecrow and have human and canine presence until the killing stops. We shall have to see..........
3 comments:
get some guinea fowl
mine keep anything at bay with their machine gun chatter
great blog!
I don't think this is going to help in your circumstance but it's interesting, no the less: I visited the RSPB osprey sanctuary at Loch Garten a few years ago and didn;t see many ospreys. I was told that it was a good idea to visit the trout farm in the local town. The trout farm served as a convenient Waitrose store for hungry ospreys. Initially expensive for the trout farm, they started charging ornithologists a quid a time to come in with their cameras and see many ospreys perched up and fishing. The income they received more than compensated for their losses and they are now relaxed about their avian predators and have a very good relation with the RSPB at the reserve, calling them if an osprey gets caught in the nets protecting their ponds containing young fish. An elegant solution! Nest of luck finding your own way out of this dilemma.
I have heard Guinea Fowl are good watch "dogs" don't know how they would cope with a Goshawk but it is an option.
Selling tickets to watch the hawk, good lateral thinking, but the visits are too intermittent for regular viewings, and ironically the visitors would keep the hawk away...maybe not such a bad idea.
Phil
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