Discouraging hawks?

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[QUOTE=Mr. 16 gauge;340001]If I'm not mistaken, don't hawks EAT snakes? I might just be putting out a dinner invitation if I do that.

Hawks eak snakes for certain. I have seen many snakes taken by them. In particular one caught a very large black snake near my barn...a kinda pet snake I think. Most amazing thing about 'em is when they kill 'em they seem to not wriggle around very much like snakes do when humans kill 'em.. Don't know why. Heck I even saw a Kestrel catch and eat a garter snake. They are tiny falcons. I raised one of them one time..Fell off a grain elevator at our Skeet club. He didn't have 50 feathers on him when I found him. That bird would try to scare the heck outta people who came in the house. Also it was definitely not a vegan...He liked STEAK..chicken necks and hamburger. We kept him for more than a year. He would sit on our shoulders in the evening. Watch TV We got that darn bird in a local bird program and he learned to live in the wild. but every now and then he'd hit us up for some easy meals