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[LnK]

 

intresting to know have u ever seen anything in your time to turn a hawk falcon off its prey

 

No, Sparrowhawks and peregrines are masters of the sky. The only time they can be put off is when they are juvenile but they soon learn how to handle themselves. Crows are always good for mobbing are spoiling the hunters chances but crows are alsso as unwelcome around the loft.

 

There's nothing that can be done to stop a peregrine, though peregrines won't strike birds that are sat in tree's. Sparrowhawks are a little more gun-ho, a bit brainless, a manned (trained) sparrowhawk can be encourageed to tackle anything, they are just built to kill.

However they will also try and break through anything in flight. A good technique that I once witnessed was to keep a greefinch/canary or diamond dove behind some plate glass in the avairy of the pigeons. Sparrowhawks cannot see this and will go 50mph head first into it to try and get the decoy. The hawk would slide down the glass into a not to a bath and drown.

 

Plastic decoy's of any bigger bird, flashing lights high pitched noises and all the other stuff doesn't work.