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My encounter with the swooping hawk while hoggin!!!

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Andy - Hammond,

07-23-2001 07:21:09




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Hiya,

I had a very productive and enjoyable weekend. I even had time to help a neighbor and hog his 5 acres spread for the simple price of $10.00 for gas. Strange thing happened when I first noticed the slate/black colored hawk swooping from the tallest tree in the field down to the tractor and back up to the tree.

My neighbor has a nice sized lake and has an abundance of snakes and rodents that seem to enjoy its presence. Each time I would make a complete pass around, the hawk would dive bomb down towards to back/side of the tractor where I just mowed and then circle back to the high perch in the tree some 100ft. up. At first I thought he was attacking me and trying to get me to get away from something. (buried treasure, gold bars, buried birdseed in a Crown Royal pouch?)

This continued for nearly the entire time and I never saw the hawk retrieve anything from the field. Perhaps he had been lucky before with past hoggin' activity and was just looking to strike up an easy meal. Quite scary when you see this large shadow gliding across the hood of the tractor, I was hoggin' with eyes in the back of my head!

Oh well at least he wasn't perched above my door when I got home. It was just all in fun and nothing more.

Andy

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Dave Smith

07-23-2001 13:42:34




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 Re: My encounter with the swooping hawk while hoggin!!! in reply to Andy - Hammond, LA, 07-23-2001 07:21:09  
Andy, isn't it amazing the wildlife you see hogging? Rabbits, Woodchucks, Fox, Deer etc. etc.
And when you are out there working they are not afraid of you. I had a hawk take a partridge out of the air 20 foot from me. All he did was glare at me for disturbing his dinner. Great isn't it.
As I tell the city folks that come out. We have the wild animals and they have the savage animals.
Dave <*)))><

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Larry 8N75381

07-23-2001 12:43:34




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 Re: My encounter with the swooping hawk while hoggin!!! in reply to Andy - Hammond, LA, 07-23-2001 07:21:09  
As others have indicated, it is interesting to watch the reaction of wild creatures to a tractor. It's like they have almost no fear.

I was hogging once and had a fox sort of follow me around, sometimes just less than a hundred feet, just like I wasn't there. Another time a had one cross my path and go behind an old grown up fence line where I coudn't see him. When I turned at the end of the fence line he was sitting up a ways just watching. As I went up between two hills he came back to where I had passed, sat down and watched as I went on up to a gate. I got off on the far side of the tractor so he couldn't see me. As soon as I got past the tractor and was out in the open, he was gone like a shot!

I've had similar experences with deer, thought they are still shy about the tractor and do not stand too long before they will move.

Regards,
Larry

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Dennis 8N(NY)

07-23-2001 09:22:25




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 Re: My encounter with the swooping hawk while hoggin!!! in reply to Andy - Hammond, LA, 07-23-2001 07:21:09  
Like others have mentioned, when I hog my field the swallows come out to swoop around. Once I had a red tailed hawk swoop down to the ground as I was turning and he froze when he saw me heading his way. I stopped the tractor and just watched him. He finally got the nerve to move and flew to a fence post, where he waited until I passed him. I assumed he was eager for the smorgasboard presented by my cutting as I could see a dozen mice/voles in the fresh field.

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ED-Illinois

07-23-2001 08:47:07




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 Re: My encounter with the swooping hawk while hoggin!!! in reply to Andy - Hammond, LA, 07-23-2001 07:21:09  
I was deer hunting once and saw a hawk take down a phesant in mid-air! Started wondering if that thing would come after me next. Hawks are pretty good hunters and I suspect you were uncovering voles (like mice but light sensitive).

When I mow with the ford, barn swallows swarm around the tractor. I think the cutting stirrs up mosquitos and they have sort of a buffet.



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Salmoneye

07-23-2001 08:45:17




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 Re: My encounter with the swooping hawk while hoggin!!! in reply to Andy - Hammond, LA, 07-23-2001 07:21:09  
I hog seven acres next door for the doctor that owns it.
Every time I do, I get a young red fox that comes and waits till I have about a 100 foot swath cut around the outside.
He will then proceed to hunt. I have seen him get two mice during one of my passes around.
Makes the time go faster when you get to watch some interesting scenery...



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Be glad it wasn't a vulture.....bg

07-23-2001 08:38:31




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 Re: My encounter with the swooping hawk while hoggin!!! in reply to Andy - Hammond, LA, 07-23-2001 07:21:09  



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