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<blockquote data-quote="Browneye" data-source="post: 244020" data-attributes="member: 1051"><p>I have seen it happen many times over the years. Your sitting in the tractor doing fieldwork or making hay and the tractor flushes up an adult pheasant, and a hawk that was flying overhead swoops down and knocks it out of the air. If its that easy for them to take out adult birds i cant imagine how many hatchling birds they pick off before they are able to fly. But I'm not sure there are more hawks now than there were in the past. One factor I don't hear mentioned much is raccoons. 30 years ago when I was in school it was rare to see a coon unless you were out at night looking for them. Now with the huge increase in corn raised in the area the population seems to have exploded. Most times you see way more dead coon on the road than skunks which didn't use to be the case. Last year while driving a 140 mile trip I saw like 6 different dead raccoon on the highway. I think the hawks get their share once they are born but I would guess many nest are destroyed by coon before they get a chance to hatch.</p></blockquote><p></p>

[QUOTE="Browneye, post: 244020, member: 1051"] I have seen it happen many times over the years. Your sitting in the tractor doing fieldwork or making hay and the tractor flushes up an adult pheasant, and a hawk that was flying overhead swoops down and knocks it out of the air. If its that easy for them to take out adult birds i cant imagine how many hatchling birds they pick off before they are able to fly. But I'm not sure there are more hawks now than there were in the past. One factor I don't hear mentioned much is raccoons. 30 years ago when I was in school it was rare to see a coon unless you were out at night looking for them. Now with the huge increase in corn raised in the area the population seems to have exploded. Most times you see way more dead coon on the road than skunks which didn't use to be the case. Last year while driving a 140 mile trip I saw like 6 different dead raccoon on the highway. I think the hawks get their share once they are born but I would guess many nest are destroyed by coon before they get a chance to hatch. [/QUOTE]

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