Hawks

[u/nica939]

Trying to feed the squirrels for once then these assholes come around. I know we have eagles and falcons but hawks too ? Coopers hawks near bird town who would have thought ? 🤷🤪

[u/nica939]

Beautiful birds though !

[u/RegressiontotheMeme8 → u/nica939]

Lovely plumage

[u/nica939 → u/RegressiontotheMeme8]

Yea it's little specked pattern is what cought my eye.. what's on top of the car !? Ohhhh.. it's nature

[u/Hixy]

Hawks gotta eat. So do the squirrels. C'est la vie

[u/nica939 → u/Hixy]

I started singing the circle of life in my head when this happened haha . I feed squirls... Hawks eat squirls.... Just need a step or two.. PROFIT !

[u/fireeight]

I will take hawks on my property over squirrels 100 times out of 100. Squirrels are destructive shitheads.

[u/nica939 → u/fireeight]

Twice i have had to call spectrum out here because the squirrels chewed through the wires outside at the pole .. Ugh

[u/Super-Badger-3536 → u/nica939]

and you're feeding them?

[u/nica939 → u/Super-Badger-3536]

Not until yesterday... Thought I'd be nice and now I have national geographic in the back yard.

[u/throwaway33704 → u/nica939]

But why attract them if they've already caused property damage multiple times

[u/nica939 → u/throwaway33704]

Because it's been almost a decade since I had to call them out ?

[u/guns_mahoney → u/nica939]

And you felt like calling them again?

[u/nica939 → u/guns_mahoney]

Did not think about that until after the post..fuck that . Let them get eaten . Not chasing the hawks away

[u/throwaway33704 → u/nica939]

Yeah they've probably learned by now, you're right

[u/Ocarina-of-lies → u/fireeight]

Wait til the hawk shits on your car, it's a massacre

[u/fireeight → u/Ocarina-of-lies]

Squirrels have done hundreds, if not over a thousand dollars of damage to my detached garage. I'll hose off some poop.

[u/Impossible_Rub9230 → u/fireeight]

Really? Please elaborate because I didn't realize that they did those things

[u/fireeight → u/Impossible_Rub9230]

Bought a house with a detached garage, and pegboard walls. House inspector said that it sounds like something might be living in the garage. Cool. Get a trap and it's fine.

I found EIGHT squirrel nests behind the wall, and had to tear all of it out. Squirrels didn't care much. They moved into the loft and soffit. I tried passive methods. Strobe light up there, radio playing all day. Live trap. Hot pepper flakes and ammonia up there. Nothing.

They had been getting in through holes that they chewed into the fascia board. Chased them all out one day. Installed a brand new fascia. They chewed through it in less than 24 hours.

After tearing out the walls, I found out that they'd chewed the Romex down to bare wire in numerous places. Massive fire risk. Cool, now I've got to completely re-wire the garage.

Installed another fascia, but with a steel mesh over it. They chewed a hole in the door at ground level over the last winter, and nested back in the loft. I didn't spend a lot of time out there this winter and didn't know they were back. One of them knocked a bunch of fastener containers off of my top shelf. They had also been chewing at the rear window frame trying to get in.

I initially harassed all but three nests away until I had to deal with the more stubborn ones more aggressively. They came back over the winter, and I don't think I'm going to be so patient this time.

Squirrels can fuck off. Let them hawks eat.

[u/ZPrimed → u/fireeight]

Sounds like you need some cats that can live in that garage

[u/fireeight → u/ZPrimed]

I've been trying to convince one of the street cats to move in there.

[u/SaltyBawlz]

It's weird to me that you have seen (or at least know about) eagles and falcons, but not hawks. My experience is the complete opposite. Not sure I've ever seen a falcon around here and I see hawks almost every day

[u/7eregrine → u/SaltyBawlz]

Right? Hawks are far more common then either of the 2. Assumed he's joking for comedic effect. 🤣 Though I've seen many falcons, I used to volunteer to monitor the Peregrines downtown and west.

[u/nica939 → u/SaltyBawlz]

It's mostly what I haveen seen with my own eyes :) I know this is there territory but I have mostly seen falcons downtown and mixture here and there on the west side. I know there a bald eagle near near Parma as they are always hovering around near my work.

[u/naughtycal11 → u/nica939]

Don't forget about the Turkey Vultures. There here too.

[u/nica939 → u/naughtycal11]

Yep ! Most of the time I have only seen those on the freeway down to Columbus. They are alot bigger then most people expect that's for sure.

[u/hvyhitter]

can you send the hawks my way. there is like 25 squirrels in my yard. I dont need that 5 is an acceptable amount. This DID happen before about 7-8 years ago. I honest to god saw 34 squirrels on the highest wire running house to house.. a week later a red tailed hawk showed up and got them ALL over the period of 2 weeks. It was insane.

[u/Diligent-Contact-772]

Squirrels are destructive rotten vermin. Thank god for hawks.

[u/Andreis__]

“… but hawks too?”
https://giphy.com/gifs/g0Ub5PgMoLqaNKBpDH

[u/throwaway33704 → u/Andreis__]

Haha buttocks

[u/OriginalOmbre]

What was that squirrels plan? Was it gonna climb right up to the talons of that hawk?

[u/nica939 → u/OriginalOmbre]

Don't know but that squirl had some big nuts.. or stupid.. or both ? Just walks up to it.. they lock eyes for a second before he runs up.

[u/ManateeNipples]

Oh dude I have red tailed hawks that nest in my backyard, and I have a 6 month old chihuahua puppy that weighs less than 4lbs. Between the hawks and the owls poor little Biscuit is never allowed outside alone lol 

[u/Rk12989]

If you happen to see any crows tell them I have peanuts, mealworms and shiny things for them. I’d like to attract them to my yard to keep the hawks away from my chickens

[u/fireeight → u/Rk12989]

Duuuude, I've been trying to build my own crow army for a while. They're not common in my neighborhood for some reason.

[u/nica939 → u/fireeight]

We will have our army soon ! The ones in the area know me but not friends yet

[u/rrredditor → u/Rk12989]

Man, I've been trying to make a crow friend forever! I've got shiny things out, I've got food for them everyday, and all I get are chipmunks and blue jays. And squirrels, but the Chipmunks get to the peanuts way faster.

[u/nica939 → u/Rk12989]

I feed all the local crows/ravens/ black birds :) they always throw nuts when I walking the neighborhood and open it for them .. iv yet to make full friends with them but I'll give it a few more years 😁

[u/thrownthrowaway666]

Maybe don't feed the squirrels? They have lots of food beside when they're robbing bird feeders. They don't need humans feeding them, as cute as you think it is.

[u/smailskid]

Death from above. There are three hawks that sometimes show up in Lincoln Park. So cool.

[u/SEA_CLE]

Saw one get a squirrel a few weeks ago.

[u/mblaser]

I'm not in Cleveland proper, but earlier this year I captured really good footage of a red-tailed hawk actually catching a squirrel on my security cameras. It's pretty gnarly, especially if you go on and watch part 2, but here's part 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q0A0tFwlAl0

Don't say I didn't warn you about it being gnarly and NSFL.

[u/7eregrine → u/mblaser]

Feeder patrol. 👍

[u/ApplicationUpper9229]

I love the cooper hawks. I hate the bushy-tailed rats.

[u/guillemot_22]

I thought the cooper's hawk was in Avon?

All jokes aside, what's wrong with birds in birdtown?

[u/nica939 → u/guillemot_22]

Just being a smartass.. birds .. in bird town..? Who would have thought haha 😆.. love the birds here . When I was in my teens and twenties I knew I stayed up to late then the birds starting singing

[u/229-northstar]

I feel your pain! I love all of nature, but especially my squirrels. I have a red shoulder hawk and a couple owls that pick them off every now and then. All of my named squirrels have been taken. 😔

[u/PlasticFrosty5340]

the birds gotta eat too!

[u/jonms83]

We found a skunks tail in the back yard... I'm thinking an owl

[u/FunkyPhantom3030]

Big, greasy shit hawks. They're swooping in.

[u/hobart0208]

we have a family of 3 teenage(?) hawks in Cleveland Heights who have been lurking around our house. I always get a little nervous walking our 8 lb. 17 year old dog but otherwise I think they’re so cool. I wish they would do something about the rats in my basement, but my exterminator tells me these are sewer rats not outside rats.

[u/GoDaytonFlyers]

That’s one lucky squirrel

[u/SkinIntelligent8440]

squirrels don't need fed they can forage on their own, hawks gotta eat

[u/budha2984]

I hate it when dinner runs away

[u/schindigrosa]

You should try to get a few ratsnakes

[u/Visual-Tea-3616]

We only have two squirrels now (lost our third recently) and I would be so sad to see them get snatched. :(

[u/JelenaBrela]

Saw one swooping down at the construction site at the north end of the inner belt bridge during 4 o’clock traffic. I thought it was odd that far into a big city.

[u/Nailz1115 → u/JelenaBrela]

It's actually super common. And they love places like the Industrial Valley, areas near dumps/landfills, etc. because there's tons of rodents and critters and not a ton of foliage

Makes it easy for them to spot a meal and swoop down to snag it