When my daughter came to live with us for a year, while her husband is finishing his tour of duty in South Korea, she brought along her pigeons. The pigeons and fly cage reside in the backyard under some trees.

One day, when my daughter was in the fly pen, a hawk came down and attacked the cage. This surprised my daughter as the hawk did not seem to be concerned with her presence. On another occasion, as we were looking out the window, we saw the hawk once again trying to get into the cage.

This prompted my daughter to come up with an idea to try. She got a plastic pop bottle, tied some fish line on it and covered it with faux fur. Then, she threw the bottle out into the back yard and slowly pulled it across the grass, hoping to attract a hawk.

The hawk was not interested. We concluded that apparently the hawk didn’t like faux.
Perhaps faux is too dry and tasteless or maybe there isn’t enough meat for the birds liking. What ever the reason, the hawk didn’t go for the faux.