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  1. M

    Ethical Question

    I have done all of the above in my backyard.
  2. M

    Ethical Question

    I suppose it would, we got quite a few black and Turkey vultures here as well. We had a nesting pair of black vultures, seeing those gangly little ones running around was pretty neat.
  3. M

    Ethical Question

    I agree
  4. M

    Ethical Question

    These type of questions never seem to have a definitive answer. I went to an environmentall college took several ethics courses where we discussed these types of scenarios endlessly
  5. M

    Ethical Question

    Here's the video on YouTube. Didn't get the male today, he ambushed me and was to quick https://youtu.be/B6CiaIBlZDc
  6. M

    Ethical Question

    That's a good idea Saw something today I've never seen before, the male grabbed the food first, he's quite the ambush hunter, didn't see him coming. The female started squeaking and cooing at the male, he tore off a piece of the food and gave it to her. Pretty neat to see
  7. M

    Ethical Question

    I feel like I'm trolling this issue a bit but don't mean to. How is this different than providing dead meal worms for the insect eaters. All birds that are fed in everyone's backyard is altering their behavior. Taking the devils advocate, should we stop feeding all birds, allow the population...
  8. M

    Ethical Question

    Had a chance to change the permission settings in google drive. Give this a try. It was cold and overcast that morning so lighting not that good. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1k0aord82fOt0J5U62vwgRtspGNzJtoLA/view?usp=sharing
  9. M

    Ethical Question

    Boo, I need to work on the permissions.
  10. M

    Ethical Question

    Here is the female, note how she glides in rather than a hard strike. The male was to fast for me this morning Let me know if this works https://drive.google.com/a/t2dcoaching.com/file/d/1k0aord82fOt0J5U62vwgRtspGNzJtoLA/view?usp=drivesdk
  11. M

    Ethical Question

    Birds in general, not necessarily raptors learn from each other and mimmick the behavior of other birds. For example, the male hawk had no interest in me what so ever until he spotted the female eating food I provided for her, now he's highly aggressive about feeding. There is a really good...
  12. M

    Ethical Question

    That pic I posted above I was within arms distance when she came in to get the food.
  13. M

    Ethical Question

    Thought that through as well, not completely replacing their total daily food allotment just supplementin to a degree. In other words they need to hunt to live, not just relying on me.
  14. M

    Ethical Question

    The food is trapped and dead field mice from the same open field they hunt in. I feed all the animals around my house, squirrels, deer, raccoons, and lots of different birds. The hawks are pretty well trained to come when I call them in the morning. The male will take food right out of my hand...
  15. M

    Ethical Question

    Thoughts on feeding wild hawks their natural food?
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