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A hawk landed on our patio railing! It was big too, maybe 20#'s, @ 1st I thought it was an eagle! Cwazzie bird, don't know if it was after the pigeons or my fur butts...they were sitting right by the patio door, only a thin screen between them. I was giving Princess a bath, so I wrapped her in a towel & ran toward the patio window to shoo it away. Wow the size of that thing was impressive & scary! I knew we had wildlife up in these hills, but never saw a hawk up until now...just the thought of it's huge talons & beak gives me the chills. Please be careful everyone, they seem to be flying about again! |
They are a scary sight when you see them up close. I have seen them in the trees on the edge of the backyard. They are huge compared to a regular bird. The big black birds in the area would chase them away though. Our owls are much bigger. I had one fly over my head one morning. Something blotted out the sun for a couple of seconds I looked up and an owl was fly over head and landed on a tree limb. They don't make a sound even though they are so huge! Wow. That hawk landing that close to your home is really nervy not to mention scary! |
i hear ya, they are scary. we live in the country on 5 1/2 acres and we have a pair of hawkes living in the woods surrounding our property. sometimes i when i am sitting on the deck with the dogs i can see them circling above and making that horrid screeching sound... |
Dont kid yourself....he was there for your BABIES!!!! I used to have one that would come and sit on my fence and watch the patio, waiting for us to go outside.....I live on the lot in the middle of a cul-de-sac, so my back yard is HUGE....188 feet from corner to corner across the back, and 150 feet up both sides...but the distance from my patio, to the back fence is only about 50 feet....that is where the house is closest to the fence....and that big hawk sits on the fence, looking right in my windows across the back of my sun room, and just waiting for us to go out the back door onto the patio! As the neighborhood has grown and the trees have grown up (I cant believe we have been there 15 years!), the hawks have stopped coming around so much, thank goodness....but I do not let my guard down for even a second. |
So scary. Be careful. |
Oh my goodness how scary. |
A few years ago I met a couple on vacation who had a couple yorkies. They said one of their yorkies was killed by an owl. They said in hind sight, there had been sightings/hootings of an owl nearby for a few days, but they didn't realize the risk. Then one night they let the dog out to potty and it was killed by the owl. They realize now it was stalking their dog. That was in Ohio. I think they spot their prey, then just hang out quietly somewhere and wait for the opportunity to get it. Hawks do that to. |
It's true. They perch or circle above to look for prey. And if they see something they will wait to pounce. They love big open spaces. |
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yeah, they give me the creeps when they circle like that. i never ever leave my little ones out alone... |
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Another resident here @ our condo confirmed that the hawks (plural, yikes!) were after the pigeons. The one we ran into a couple months back @ my aunt's place had a pigeon pinned down w/it's talons...but he was a juvenile or a smaller one (red shinned hawk, to be exact). The one I saw yesterday was BIG & just like what some of you are mentioning, it was QUIET. I only happened to see it bc our kitchen faces the patio (Princess was getting bathed in the kitchen sink), we have large sliding door type window & it silently flew in & just sat there on the railing, ohhh I'm getting goosebumps! |
Oh, how scary! I'm glad you were there to shoo it away... |
Obviousy, the hawks already hunt there because of the pigeons, so don't let your guard down. Yorkie would be a tasty treat over pigeon. I have a relative that lives in a country setting and she created a fenced in area covered by a tarp for her pup to go potty because she was afraid of the hawks. I'm guessing since you are in LA and live in a condo that you don't have that option. Is your patio on the first floor and does she go out there to go potty or is it higher up? Maybe you could stretch some clear fishing line across somehow or something like that as a deterent that would be out of your way, but would deter a hawk flying in again. |
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