My bird was attacked by a hawk
My dove spends most days outside on the patio table in his cage. Today a hawk attacked him from outside his cage. He has a gash in his chest but is not bleeding any more. Not sure about his legs and don't want to handle him any more. I have a chance to be a walk-in tomorrow at a bird vet. Most vets don't see birds, and all vets in my area are totally booked. I've called about 10 vets. He's resting on the bottom of the cage; he moved to the corner by himself. He's inside now, and we have covered the cage. He's alert. I hope he will be ok. We've had him many years.
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socks
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Comments (1)Great shots. He may be drinking and bathing. Red tail hawks aren't agile enough to catch very many birds. they are more likely to dive onto bunnies and rodents....See MoreI'm getting attacked by a Broad wing hawk
Comments (9)Update on the two fledlings. They are doing well and pretty grown up. Parents are gone. They are still around my yard and get pretty excited when I mow the lawn. They usually find something that I disturb in the grass for them to eat. I decided to have some fun yesterday (too much time on my hands I guess) with them to get a closer look. I put a red hot dog on the lawn attached with fishing line far out in the back. No hooks by the way. I kept twitching it across the grass while they were perched above. You guessed it, one of them from high above dove down onto it where I could see it up close. He only ate a little of the dog though then took off. I did it again and the other one dove at it again. This hawk kept picking at the fishing line but didn't stay too long. I didn't have the camera handy, but what a sight to see it fold up its wings from high above to attack it. Oh, by the way, when I was about 12 yrs old,61 now, I used to have five of these Broad winged hawks as pets. I wish I could find the pic that was taken of me with one sitting on my shoulder. Thats it for now....See MorePlease help, Hawk attacking my doves! please
Comments (2)Plant some dense shrubs and trees, so they have somewhere to hide. Otherwise, you can't stop nature. The doves will breed through the spring and summer, increasing their numbers again. If they all bred and all survived with none more killed, you'd end up with first hundreds, and then thousands, of them. Nature finds its own balance. It may appear cruel, but it is natural. Resin...See MoreHawk Eating Bird Seed and Suet With Other Birds
Comments (6)No catherinet- I saw the hawk eat the bird food seed and suet. The brown area he is standing on is a pile of no mess bird seed with suet chunks. I trust my eyes but since it was so unusual I wanted to double check. The only thing the hawk was killing that morning was the bird seed....See Moresocks
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3 years agoWeather is nice today so I put the bird in his outside cage since I have to work in the garden and I am available to fight off any birds of prey! It’s only his second time outside. This is not the cage he was attacked in.
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3 years agoAlthough the bird here is a pigeon, we have named him "Dove Bar" because he is chocolate and vanilla in color.
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3 years agoMany here are content to have Dove Bar land on them, and even seem to enjoy it.
Here a horse vet who was visiting to examine one of the horses that boards here had help from Dove Bar.
For me it gets right into my phobia of flying things getting too close to me. Almost inevitably Dove Bar will come flying up behind me, intending to land on my head, and I will shriek in terror and drop to the ground, causing the bird to abort the landing attempt.
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