Red Shouldered Hawk Doesn't Want My Raw Steak 4/16/21
Channel: Jeremy Hirzel
Date: 24/04/2021

I want to give a shoutout @donbrasz, here's his channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCCsIjb_wjiKoHe6pRQ-Tsag. He's the guy who designed an idea that I tried in this video! But it didn't work out so well, at least not for this hawk. Before I started filming, I looked up at a tree, and there was a Red Shouldered Hawk only 5 feet from me before flying to a further tree. I decided to give Don's feeding idea another try (there were previous one's but this is one that went into more detail with). I went through through a step-by-step process that you'll see in this video. First I placed the steak on the ground, and wiggled it around as if I'm trying to catch a snake. Then I quickly yanked my hand across my shoulder and threw it backwards towards the hawk! I blew my whistle 6 times, I then proceeded to walk away from the hawk, then I stopped moving and turned around. It was right when I zoomed in with my camera that the hawk flew off. Also, you can hear his mate making calls, so I imagine his mate must have heard my whistling as well. I was so upset about it, that the following week I decided to build myself a box trap so that I can trap this Red Shouldered Hawk instead. The trap is in my grandma's van. If you want to create this trap yourself, its actually quite simple. Just follow along with this video, then you can do the same thing as well. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zR9uZmyGuos. Keep in mind that I do plan on releasing this hawk upon trapping it! I don't plan on keeping the hawk as a pet! That's pretty obvious since I'm not a Falconer yet, but I do plan on it sometime in the distant future. I don't think my raw steak is going to attract these hawks though. I think I should just find a dead snake or mouse on the ground instead. That would be a better idea! Or I could just buy a live one and raise it myself. Then put it in a cage, and set it on my box trap! What'd you think of that?