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RE: Hawk trying to raid the Garden!
I suppose hawks have to eat, too, but not in my backyard! I was told that the most common cause of death in hawks and eagles is starvation. I guess it takes young ones a long time to learn how to hunt for themselves Great photos, my friend!
Great to see you Lady Melinda and Spring season into Autumn is the best time foe hawks to feast on the young ones. I have seen how the parents teach the young ones how to hunt and there is ample food for them over here. They like to take rodents and rabbits and we have even seen one take a big Hadeda Ibis baby out of a nest.
I love to snap them in flight, but I think that they have taken enough babies over here in the big garden. There were two clusters of 12 guinea fowl babies each and in the first there is only one left. In the second there is only four left.
So I have decided that enough is enough and all.
We feed the babies now with a special No 1 maize and corn mix, designed as a fast growing booster. The great thing is that they have started to fly and they sleep with the mom 30 meters up in the old oak tree every night.
Blessings!
It is good that you are taking care of those babies! It must be tough to be a bird!