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[quote=Anonymous]Hey a hawk got our duck.  The duck was too big for it to fly off with, but that didn't stop it from killing and starting to rip it to managable-sized pieces!

OP, here is what I learned from the duck episode (and another episode)--once the hawk sees the potential prey, it will never forget it is there, and will bide its time.  I think they know where every mouse den or bird nest (or chicken run, whatever) that they have not been able to score with, and check it out as part of their routine.   We had three ducklings in the yard and my dh was sitting in a chair with them at his feet, and a hawk flew to the top of our monkey bars right next to my dh. From that point on, the hawk was obsessed.

We also had a hawk fly down to snatch our pet chicken. There were three of my family members all bumping a volleyball to each other (so we were in a small triangle as the tweens were learning to bump) and the chicken was puttering in the middle of the triangle, and a hawk came down inside that small triangle and grabbed the chicken--my dh reflexively kicked the hawk off, that's how close they were.  Hawk did not care that people were right there--I'm under the impression (from a WaPo snowy owl article a couple of years ago) that when they focus on their prey, and don't register anything else (in the article, that's why the snowy owl flew in front of a bus and got hit)[/quote]

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