I'm under attack...!!!!!!!!!!!!!! [ Barn 1, Hawk 0 ]

[JerryK]

Out in the barn and hear a really loud bang on the side of my barn [ like someone hitting it with a baseball bat ]. Look outside and a hawk is laying upside down, either knocked out, or moving his last few minutes left in this world. There is a dusty looking dent up on my barn about three feet directly left of the light. Hit hard enough to push in the metal and take some of the rollformed creases out of it.

 

[coolreinfarm]

It's a shame but it happens, had a big owl run into a mercury vapor light on the side of the barn,
broke the lens off, I found him the next morning too my surprise.

 

[Redlands Okie]

Wow. Miscalculated that fly by The denting of the raised portion of the tin is impressive. Hopefully it will be up and about in a bit. But that might have been to hard of a hit. Curiosity has got me now. Let us know if it flies away.

 

[JerryK]

It kicked for a few minutes... but we'll see. Don't look too good as of now.

 

[oosik]

I have birds - robins, sparrows - fly into my windows now & then. Most survive - a few don't. Fortunately - never a hawk or owl.

The "crash" scares the crud out of me.

 

[GregbkH]

I believe that your "Hawk" is a Grouse.

 

[1965]

It looks more like a grouse to me, they are pretty stupid too.

 

[JerryK]

Could be a grouse, never seen either close up. Whatever, I am going to plant it this morning if it is still there.... Sure hit the barn hard. Pushed the metal in about 1/2" in about a one foot circle and semi-flatted out some of the fluting in between the main ribs. Maybe it was being chased and got disorientated. I figured it was a hawk and diving down at something. We have a lot of them here, and eagles are getting thicker. Bet they would really put a dent in something...

 

[npalen]

Probably chasing a female.

 

[JerryK]

Probably chasing a female.

[ we all got a little crazy doing that.... neighbor says that sometimes they get into the old fermented cherries up here this time of year. We have lots of pin cherry trees mixed in with the sugar maple and beech ]