Yesterday while drilling wheat, I noticed a big Hawlk sitting in the dead tree next to the field watching me. After about 3 rounds I saw her (him) take off and head right for me, swooped down and grabbed a big mouse or small rat about 10 feet in front of me, never stopped, back to the tree and proceeded to have supper. Nature at its finest, was pretty cool to watch it first hand.
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Michael Williams
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Those hawks are pretty amazing to say the least... We have a mating pair which hang around our farm.. Where are you in Ohio? - I'm in Springfield..
Goose
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I once counted ten hawks in trees one spring when I was discing a 30 acre field.
What I could never figure out when I was farming, was every spring when you worked the ground, a huge flock of white seagulls would follow, assumably after insects. That was the only time you ever saw them.
What I couldn't figure out, (still can't) was where the heck do seagulls come from in Nebraska, and where did they go after you finished working the ground?
What I could never figure out when I was farming, was every spring when you worked the ground, a huge flock of white seagulls would follow, assumably after insects. That was the only time you ever saw them.
What I couldn't figure out, (still can't) was where the heck do seagulls come from in Nebraska, and where did they go after you finished working the ground?
Nancy Howell
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We have an exceptionally large red tailed hawk we have named "Rex" because he"s so big.
"Rex" would frequently show up when we were mowing. He"s pretty amazing.
"Rex" would frequently show up when we were mowing. He"s pretty amazing.
fixerupper
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When we harvest irrigated wheat in Idaho the hawks go crazy over the varmints that are suudenly left without cover. This year I ran the grain cart so I had a good view of the action. I've seen them let go of the varmint while they're in flight leading me to think their toes might get bit by their prey sometimes. Jim
Fordfarmer
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We have several varieties of hawks, plus the occasional bald eagle. They are always around when we're mowing hay or combining small grains. Easy meals for them. Often see them sitting on round bales before the bales get hauled out of the field, too.
I have had the same happen with a large redtail hawk when I mow a small field...it never took him very long to devour a mouse once he got it back to his dead elm tree either....
I always carry a camera with me on the tractor and every time I would stop to take a picture, he would then fly away and not return until I started mowing again...
I put my son on the tractor and sat in the fence line and got a picture of the hawk swooping down on an unlucky mouse....it looks like the hawk is dive bombing my son on the 8N..
Nature truly is both cool and cruel...today I was sent a bunch of pics of a nice buck that got hit by a car,,,,before it died a black bear set on it and began feeding on the buck while it lay there dying...that bear was not afraid of the cameraman being so close either.
Tim
I always carry a camera with me on the tractor and every time I would stop to take a picture, he would then fly away and not return until I started mowing again...
I put my son on the tractor and sat in the fence line and got a picture of the hawk swooping down on an unlucky mouse....it looks like the hawk is dive bombing my son on the 8N..
Nature truly is both cool and cruel...today I was sent a bunch of pics of a nice buck that got hit by a car,,,,before it died a black bear set on it and began feeding on the buck while it lay there dying...that bear was not afraid of the cameraman being so close either.
Tim
I go by a river on my way to work, and there's a semi-famous bald eagle nest about a half mile away "as the eagle flies." Saw something out of the corner of my eye one morning, looked up and it was Mrs. Eagle with about a 12 inch trout, headed for the nest. Pretty cool stuff.
Nancy Howell
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Wish we had something to clean up all the grasshoppers that fly up when we mow.
Fordfarmer
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someone emailed me those pics a few days ago also. Got one today with pics of a black bambi. Never seen one of those!
James Howell
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We were working on the equipment shed one morning and Nancy spotted this one.
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First one ever flying above our farm.
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First one ever flying above our farm.
Anonymous-0
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I am about 18 miles east of you, Mike!
Anonymous-0
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got any land fills near you?
Watdhed a Hawk with a snake one time. Noticed him as he swooped down and grabbed the snake. He got up a couple hundred feet and circled around and dropped the snake. As it fell he circled around and when the snake hit it bounced about a foot high just as the hawk grabbed it again,
Only problem was a 4 strand barbwire fence about 10 feet away. The Hawk cleared ok but the snake didnt! Wham the ol hawk smaked the ground and I thought it killed him. Ten seconds later he got up and shook himself and just flew away.
Snake still on the fence last I saw.
Only problem was a 4 strand barbwire fence about 10 feet away. The Hawk cleared ok but the snake didnt! Wham the ol hawk smaked the ground and I thought it killed him. Ten seconds later he got up and shook himself and just flew away.
Snake still on the fence last I saw.
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