D**N Hawks are back again

[jhcox]

I love birds of prey with a passion but I hate them when it come time for the young martins to fledge. Watching them and knowing you’re fighting a losing battle. I know I average between 350 and 400 fledgelings a year and I’m doing far more good then the hawks are downing bad. But it sucks when you witness the attack and you are just helpless.

JHCox
Heiskell TN

[sonja8582]

I’m so sorry. I’ve witnessed a cooper hawk capture a recently returned (from Brazil or S. America) and resting on the house - right in front of my son and I. Also, captured on my blink camera where the hawks wings wrap around my 3x3 foot trendsetter. I think gourds help in this situation. The babies don’t get so crammed. Try the horizontal gourd from troyer. My colony is smaller than yours but I live in texas and the birds are prey have pretty good populations and also nest around here

[jhcox]

48 of my gourds are troyer horizontal gourds and the rest of the gourds at a mix of the huge super goirds and the smaller S&K Bo9s then I have two S&K barn houses that are modified for bigger rooms