Well, looks like we're raising a baby dove.

[burgawboy]

Wow, condoning the killing of raptors

Yes

 

[Grif]

If we can get all these damn ducks and geese killed we'll have more time to address the Raptor problem.

 

[Grif]

Owls are at least as big of a problem as hawks. At the old house I watched owls eat every duckling ever hatched in the pond next to my house. Last night I was outside late.....4 owls calling to each other in the tree line behind my house....not 20 yards from each other. Those suckers hunt all night.

 

[riverrat47]

To most country folks all hawks were chicken hawks, something to be eliminated, legal or not.

There really didn't seem to be an abundance of raptors when I was young. Now, there seems to be a hawk on every utility pole and fence post. Of course, fence posts have become as rare as hawks were in the 50s.

 

[Fasteel72]

Owls are at least as big of a problem as hawks. At the old house I watched owls eat every duckling ever hatched in the pond next to my house. Last night I was outside late.....4 owls calling to each other in the tree line behind my house....not 20 yards from each other. Those suckers hunt all night.

I did to till I got older.

 

[tripper]

SSS And be done

^^^
no pictures either

 

[bbfky]

Hawks get the ducklings during the day. Owls take them at night. If a hen isn’t completely protected while sitting on the nest she will be killed if an owl finds her. Seen it too many times.

 

[Jordan Vizinat]

Last yr around this time, late March/ early April when the BW’s we’re passing back through, I was sacalait fishing down a canal when a hawk came out of nowhere and smoked the most beautifully plumed BW Teal you’ll ever see. Knocked him out of mid air. Teal had a busted up wing but swam into some willows and I kept the hawk away w my boat.

 

[Soggy Socks]

Read this earlier that's too bad. Sorry to hear that. As far as owls they are spooky birds. I was in a treestand and had one land on a branch level with me and crouch down like a cat looking at me. Maybe he thought he hit the jackpot with a 170 pound squirrel.

 

[duckbuster5901]

Years ago when I still quail hunted my little Brittany struck a beautiful point in brush at woods edge. When I walked in for flush it was a great horned owl she was pointing, crippled with a hanging wing. Huge bird when your in that close on them and we left it to its demise much to the dogs objection. Even crippled it would have probably tore that dog up pretty bad from the size of talons on it. Aquaintance had put out 100 dummy mallards on island pond and they were kept fed there. Didn't take long before he started finding duck heads laying around shore as his stocking dwindled. Owls coming in at night cutting off head and neck on attack and flying off with body to feast. They will decimate ducks and ducklings especially catching them in open as any bird of pray will.