Video of a hawk attacking my chickens.

[LarryW]

Crazy 5 video camera footage of the action. I think it turned out pretty well. This is what my security cameras picked up. I have 5 cameras mounted on the house and 3 cameras I have been playing around with getting deer and such in the back yard. But I didnt think I would get a hawk. I picked it up on three cameras on the house and on 2 of my play cameras. Also camera 2 tipped over which is one of the high resolution channels in my dvr. If it didnt tip over I wouldnt of had footage of it landing in the tree. But I would have had better fighting footage. Oh well. Turned out pretty cool though. I wish my yard was cleaner,lol. Yes the chicken lived, so I might get another video. I know I need better hawk bait. Maybe something the family isnt attached to.

[smog]

Yes the chicken lived, so I might get another video.

I have seen the hens attacking a raven in my backyard and it was ugly (for the raven) but video taping a hawk is really something....

[lewis]

That second chicken wasn't chicken......looked like he or she wanted in on this fight.

Glad all survived!

Thanks for posting it!

[Model Citizen]

That was cool, Larry Dubba You.

The second chicken looked like it was coming to the rescue of the other chicken. That one was not a Chicken chicken. Like what Lewis said, but beat me to it. Great minds.....

Bridget

[plott hound]

ha ha,too cool!

[Bud]

Ol' Foghorn Leghorn was definitely pissed that the hawk was after one of his ladies!

[lewis]

That was cool, Larry Dubba You.

The second chicken looked like it was coming to the rescue of the other chicken. That one was not a Chicken chicken. Like what Lewis said, but beat me to it. Great minds.....

Bridget

Your right on the money Model Citizen!!!!

[LarryW]

Lewis, Bridget, Bud, Yea it did look like he might have done something if the hawk did succeed.

I think the video turned out cool with the different shots. I wish they were all the higher resolution though.

One day my wife got home and there was a red tailed hawk sitting at the front door eating a chicken. She scared it away. The chicken was bigger then the hawk. The chicken didnt die then but did die the next day of a major gouge to the throat. We have had other encounters too. Seems if we find a body or it turns up missing in the daytime, its a hawk. If the body is gone and came up missing at night its a coon. If there was a night attack and the head is missing, a possum. In the spring I plan on doing something different with the chickens. An inclosed fence and maybe some other sort of coop.