Red Tail Hawk started screeching constantly

tcreeley · Oct 5, 2017

We'll get a screeching young crow every late summer- young one wanting attention. Also sometimes the adult will go around calling out warnings when a young one has left the nest.

kcflhrc · Oct 5, 2017

The Red Tail Hawk babies will absolutely drive you nuts screeching. They just want fed though

MossRoad · Oct 5, 2017

Zombie thread revision from 2002!

Maybe its not a Red Tailed Hawk....

dmccarty · Oct 5, 2017

:laughing::laughing::laughing:

This is only a *** 15 *** year old thread! :laughing::laughing::laughing:

We still have a mating pair of Red Tails that screech all of the time. I kinda like it.

We have never found the nest but I THINK I know the general area where the nest is located. The pair on our place COULD be the same set we saw when we bought the land since the birds can live 20+ years. Guess I need to ask their birthdays.

At the end of the summer we noticed one of the "yearlings" hunting frequently in our front yard. Seems like it was mostly getting bugs but maybe a mouse every once in a while. They usually get tree rats and rabbits but one year we saw a wounded crow that had been hit by a hawk. The rest of the murder was trying to protect the wounded crow but the hawk was sitting in a tree, bidding it's time, and swooping in from time to time to see if it could move things along so to speak. This young hawk has made a go at the crows several times that we have seen but with not luck.

Later,
Dan

MossRoad · Oct 5, 2017

At my job I kept hearing sea gulls... over and over. But I'd never see them. I asked a few people if there were sea gulls around. Nope. Finally, I found a young Ferruginous Hawk and its parents. First ones I'd ever seen. Man, they make noise all-day-long!

GLyford · Oct 5, 2017

A couple years back I heard a handful of seagulls, but I live inland. Then I heard a car alarm, a redwing blackbird, a cardinal, and back to the seagulls. Yep, mockingbird, saw him up on the roof peak.

We had one that would mimic the whine of our dog wanting to be let in, which is a little disconcerting when he is already sitting next to you on the couch.

Redlands Okie · Oct 5, 2017

Well after 15 years one of the original posters should have given a answer on the screeching by now

i have wondered on how often the screeching is trying to scare rabbits or such and make em move around out of hiding.

dmccarty · Oct 5, 2017

Redlands Okie said:
...i have wondered on how often the screeching is trying to scare rabbits or such and make em move around out of hiding.

I agree that the screeching is used to get pray animals to move. While Hawks have good eye sight, seeing a brown bunny frozen still among the leave litter would be very difficult. But if that little bunny moves...

I watch the hawks, well, like a hawk,

and sometimes they are screeching during breeding season, other times they seem to be establishing territory with other hawks, simply talking to each other, and then they seem to be trying to get something to move.

Now, seeing owls is really interesting. Those danged birds make no sound when hunting. SCARY they is and I am not a tree rat. We have an owl nest right near the house and I have seen the hunting. Skippy Squirrel does not have much of a chance against an owl at dusk. Owl says, :licking:. :laughing::laughing::laughing:

Later,
Dan

RobertN · Oct 5, 2017

OP here - they eventually stopped. But they did it again the next year. It seemed seasonal; maybe mating...

Redlands Okie said:
Well after 15 years one of the original posters should have given a answer on the screeching by now i have wondered on how often the screeching is trying to scare rabbits or such and make em move around out of hiding.