Discouraging hawks?

[skeet]

Nulle.. I kind of agree with you except for one thing..it used to be incumbent upon the SPORTSMEN of this country to shoot hawks and crows. When the use of DDT was banned to help them(hawks) recover there was wording put in the ESA to protect hawks and owls etc..even the common crow was given protection in the name of saving the mexican crow. I have never seen so many hawks as we have now. Crows either. Where I came from in Md the poor bobwhite quail had so many critters after them they really can't make a real comeback...even when they have good places to live breed and hide. The foxes were terrible there because they were protected by law. because I tried to control the predators of the quail I actually had 3 coveys on approx 40 acres of CReP land. That was 3 coveys more than the neighboring farmer had on his 260 acres next door to me. Sportsmans dollars are being wasted daily in the name of predators, from hawks to wolves. We withj our license dollars and other fees are paying for poor science to the detriment of game animals and birds as well as song birds etc. I really don't worry about the eagles but I have 5 Goldens that live on the cliff behind my house. That is a lot of Eagles in less than a square mile. If i had a little ankle biter i sure wouldn't let iut out around here. We had skwerls here but the little horned owls have wiped 'em out..prairie dogs too..on my place.. Do I want to wipe 'em out??..of course not..but we have wayyy too many predators now. And we surely didn't need the wolves that the do gooders gave us. They want 'em protected and they don't even live here.