NightSpectre
Member
What is this bird of prey???? It's eatting all my chickens!
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I'm new here and need help! My chickens and young pullets ( replacement hens ) I ordered from the hatchery are all starting to disappear a few at a time. Now the numbers are really dropping. 2 Nights ago my teenage son saw a bird in the tree's behind the coop. My birds usually free range during the day. Then last night the same bird dove from a tree near the chicken coop and all the young chickens born just a few months ago ran for my son, the bird of prey just cleared over my son's head. Today the yard went quiet and their was no birds to be seen. Which is hard since I have 43 ducks, 33 turkeys, and I did have over 150 chickens! I counted the chickens this morning there are 67! Anyway I went out to look and see why I couldn't see a living soul in the yard. The chickens were under bushes and shurbs and such actting like the devil was after them. I looked in the tree's near the coop and saw this bird. I slowly went in the house and got a camera. I couldn't get too close without spooking him but I do have a zoom and I zoomed in on the bird before it flew away. My son thought it was a falcon of some sort, his first thought was a Peregrine falcon. And I was thinking he might be right but after searching online I don't think so. I did find a Goshawk that might be what it is. But I have a pic and maybe if I can get it loaded, someone out there will know what it is.I live in Upstate NY...along the Canadian Border very close to Vermont. Can anyone help me? I'm going to try to post a picture .
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I'm new here and need help! My chickens and young pullets ( replacement hens ) I ordered from the hatchery are all starting to disappear a few at a time. Now the numbers are really dropping. 2 Nights ago my teenage son saw a bird in the tree's behind the coop. My birds usually free range during the day. Then last night the same bird dove from a tree near the chicken coop and all the young chickens born just a few months ago ran for my son, the bird of prey just cleared over my son's head. Today the yard went quiet and their was no birds to be seen. Which is hard since I have 43 ducks, 33 turkeys, and I did have over 150 chickens! I counted the chickens this morning there are 67! Anyway I went out to look and see why I couldn't see a living soul in the yard. The chickens were under bushes and shurbs and such actting like the devil was after them. I looked in the tree's near the coop and saw this bird. I slowly went in the house and got a camera. I couldn't get too close without spooking him but I do have a zoom and I zoomed in on the bird before it flew away. My son thought it was a falcon of some sort, his first thought was a Peregrine falcon. And I was thinking he might be right but after searching online I don't think so. I did find a Goshawk that might be what it is. But I have a pic and maybe if I can get it loaded, someone out there will know what it is.I live in Upstate NY...along the Canadian Border very close to Vermont. Can anyone help me? I'm going to try to post a picture .