Marched out this morning, flung the coop door open, and Ninja *growled.* Kinda pleased that I didn’t think she was growling at *me,* I just immediately turned around to see what was bothering her. It was a Cooper’s hawk! Sitting on the garden fence twenty feet away!
I know that something has to eat all these bunnies, but coopers hawks will kill small chickens, too. (RIP to Honey and Toast’s sister, gone before she got a proper name 😢) I yelled “go away” and waved my arms, and it went away - to the fence at the bottom of the garden. When I chased it, it just flew up into the big Doug fir. I went back to the coop and waited for something to change.
The next challenger was the female Anna’s hummingbird. She flew all the way to the top of the fir, probably 75’, and buzzed the hawk. The hawk ignored her and she had to leave.
The raven was next. My hungry friend had been on the noble fir by the barn, but it flew over to the Doug fir and perched on the other side of the top. I yelled encouragement to it but absolutely nobody cared what I was doing. Then the raven took off, and the hawk hassled it! Put its little claws out and threatened to fall upon my raven friend! I shrieked, but the hawk wasn’t trying to kill and the raven didn’t give a fuck.
The hawk had finally had enough of my nonsense, though. The raven flew back around the house to the noble fir, but the hawk kept going to eat the neighbor’s bunnies and my chickens filed out of the coop. Whew!
I’m tentatively calling it at 2 baby roosters, 4 pullets. Two of them have that suspiciously perky tail, and this morning, one of those two made a baby version of the “come look at this treat!” call. Stay sweet, little guys.
#chickens #chicks
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