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Prob'ly flying low to avoid the wind turbines.

have you tried the stick-on hawk outline decals?

https://msu.edu/~chenange/KBS/images/hawk.gif

In this case you blow the image up 8 1/2" by 11" size

Said to be pretty effective sometimes.

Then what would my dog eat?

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They’ll do that when they think they’re in danger. Earlier this year on my way to school there was a warbler in bush behind a fast food place one morning, clearly where it had ended up after a night of migrating. I was on a bicycle, it flew across the parking lot and “plink” right into a darkened window of a restaurant, probably seeking cover.

Fell to the ground, stunned. I was on a bicycle, so I put it in a shirt pocket and brung it to school to show the kids. Two hours later it had come around but still hiding in my pocket, it was a common yellowthroat so I let it go in some weeds.

Here’s a collision, looks like the prob’ly Sharp-shinned Hawk survived, but the mourning dove is prob’ly a goner.

Years ago, the kids came and got me all excitedly about a bird trapped in the screened room. Being the kind, wildlife friendly guy, I opened the two doors and tried to "herd" the bird (common sparrow) out. The bird did not cooperate and with patience running thin (I had something else to do in the A/C of the house) I grabbed my fish landing net.

Only took one try and I had the bird secure in the net! The only problem was it was flying North and I was swinging the net to the South. While the bird stopped, its head kept along the northward path a few feet past the net.

Inadvertently, I had decapitated the sparrow. Although a few more birds managed to find their way into the screened room, I never resorted to the landing net to get them out!!

Then there was the possum story................

I have a bay window on the North side of the house. Birds and horseflies think it’s a landing strip!

We still call them Myrtles up here. Old habits die hard I guess.

Windows act as mirrors- but you all know that. Probably- I have some doubts here and there....

A spruce grouse will shake the whole house. Ask me how I know this. So far they haven't broken a window, and I'm somewhat surprised. I wonder if my homeowners insurance covers it.

Various tweety birds and robins go from tink to thump.

Had an ermine get into a room in a school once. Captured and released unharmed, tho the essence lingered for some time.

Here when we bought. Strike two! 🤣

No. I'm honoring it's sacrifice.

OK but how do you catch them?

Ahhh... a toast to the immigrant's life. Must mean beer, too early for whiskey!

Nest box with trap entrance.

The hell you say!