Originally Posted by
jeffandheidi
Thanks for sharing, Isaac. I'm going to be very selective with where and when I can fly. My area has a lot of medium sized fields that are loaded with small birds, and all surrounded by dense woods. As a result there are coopers and great horned owls always nearby. Even when we don't see one, they are there. The other day I was feeding up on the lure and we could hear a great horned probably within a half mile. Just reminding us he was there. Ruby will bate off her perch a few times in the evening around 9pm then she tucks her head and goes to sleep until I weigh her at 10pm and feed a gram or two to make a target weight the next day. Spaz, the male from last year had to go into his box at dusk everyday, he just wouldn't sit still. When walking toward the giant hood I had to keep my body between him and the box or he would bate toward it, he wanted in! Just another example of hard wired hide at dusk behavior I guess.