Dead Hawk

[allen]

You can report a dead bird online here:

http://www.westnile.ca.gov/report_wnv.php

I think I would report it just to be safe.

[dhumph]

We’ve never seen a hawk up here, either We were able to identify it as a Cooper’s Hawk. We have had 4 birds fly into the windows over the 11 years we’ve been here, but no hawks. We were concerned if it might have been diseased…

[caleach]

I am actually surprised that a hawk would be in the woods so to speak since they seem to like hanging out at a height and scanning open ground for food. I wonder if there was something else going on that led this bird in there? I have seen more hawks around, along the highway, light poles at shopping centers, telephone wires, etc.

[JohnM]

We’ve had several birds fly into our 2nd story widow. The window is ~ 4’H x 3’W. During the day the window ‘mirrors’ the sky and the birds think the window is a continuation of the sky. Our solution was to place a wind sock in front of the window. The sock is a multi-colored fish design that looks attractive and, so far, has kept birds from flying into the window. The windsock was purchased from Amazon: “In the Breeze 60″ Rainbow Scales Fish Windsock”. Cost was ~ $20.

JohnM

[rswheeler1]

We’ve never had a hawk fly into a window, but we did have a band-tailed pigeon do it. It left a perfect image on the window.

[dhumph]

Woke up this AM and discovered a dead hawk on the backside of our cabin. The body doesn’t look as if it’s been attacked. It is about 5 feet from the cabin and directly across from a window. Has anyone else had a hawk fly into a window? We are concerned about disease? We’ve had some smaller birds hit a window but not something this big.

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