gianmarco
Footballguy
Over the last couple of days, I've heard some distinct bird sounds that I haven't heard before. Sure enough, there are a couple of hawks that seem to have moved onto our street and seemingly have nested. This morning, I noticed both of them in 2 different trees talking back and forth to each other and took this picture. Any idea what kind of hawk that is?
Just now, I was outside in our front lawn with my wife and our small 15 lb terrier mix. I heard one of them and mentioned to her that I noticed there were a couple of hawks that are now on our street. As our dog is older (14 years old), she joked that if they end up taking her, she's at least had a good life.
Literally 2 seconds after she completed that sentence, one of the hawks swooped down and flew within 2 feet of our dog and then stopped on our roof a few feet away just looking at us. My wife started freaking out, picked up our dog and went inside with her.
I've just done some reading and it does seem they can occasionally attack small pets. Plus, we have a 2 year old that my wife is freaking out about as well.
Is there anything to do about them? Do we really have to be careful and not let either out without us being close by (or does that even matter)?
Calling @Otis and any other hawk experts for thoughts.
Screech
Just now, I was outside in our front lawn with my wife and our small 15 lb terrier mix. I heard one of them and mentioned to her that I noticed there were a couple of hawks that are now on our street. As our dog is older (14 years old), she joked that if they end up taking her, she's at least had a good life.
Literally 2 seconds after she completed that sentence, one of the hawks swooped down and flew within 2 feet of our dog and then stopped on our roof a few feet away just looking at us. My wife started freaking out, picked up our dog and went inside with her.
I've just done some reading and it does seem they can occasionally attack small pets. Plus, we have a 2 year old that my wife is freaking out about as well.
Is there anything to do about them? Do we really have to be careful and not let either out without us being close by (or does that even matter)?
Calling @Otis and any other hawk experts for thoughts.
Screech