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Hawk in my garden!
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Posted by
wertach 7 SC (
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Wed, Nov 2, 11 at 12:25
| I am either doing something wrong or something right! LOL
I'm guessing it's because I started putting on my winter layer of grass and leaves on the garden three weeks ago, piled deep. About 1400 SF covered so far. More to come.
A beautiful hawk has been sitting on one of my arbor posts every day for the last week. I guess rats are in the piles?
I haven't saw him catch anything yet and he doesn't seem to be afraid of me when I am nearby, as close as 20'! Except when I try to take a picture! :) |
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RE: Hawk in my garden!
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| How many inches do you cover your veggie garden for the winter? |
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| As long as the hawk is not eating your plants, good friend to have around - many small burrowing animals love winter mulch; hawks like burrowing animals. It's a win, I'd say. |
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| I have hawks, eagles or falcons (not sure the difference) in my neighborhood too. They are so beautiful. They are also one reason I don't have chickens. |
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| A lot of hawks, falcons and eagles here, too. We're next to a seed storage building where there's always seed dumped on the ground, so there's a lot of pigeons and doves that end up as prey. Last winter there was a large hawk or maybe an eagle(dark head)just sitting in the front yard in the snow. I thought it was hurt for a moment, then realized it had a pigeon pinned down. You could see a trench in the snow behind it where it had swooped in for the kill. |
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| I had a little more time to watch him/her today. It suddenly took off, very fast and pinned down a rat, I think, maybe some other rodent type animal. It flew away with it, for about 15 minutes and came back! It is watching over the garden again now! I noticed another one about 1/2 mile from home yesterday sitting on a power line near a field. Such a beautiful majestic bird! |
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- Posted by glib 5.5 (My Page) on
Thu, Nov 3, 11 at 18:20
| All that mulch must have attracted a lot of rodents. Hopefully it will eat them all, because they can be a real problem. |
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| Very certain and general thought,that either way, being present in your garden would solve most everything. Because you are there. Always mulch. Or not. Up to you. Take care,
Travis |
RE: Hawk in my garden!
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| I guess it ran out of rodents, I haven't saw it for the last two days. I have two cats that will take care of any leftovers. They are hunters! |
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