We have a hawk that comes to our yard on a regular basis, and yesterday he got a Mourning Dove. How can I get rid of him and keep the songbirds and doves?
A. Like the other birds, the hawk is coming to your yard because there is a source of food. If you want to discourage the hawk, you’ll have to take your feeders down for a few days to disperse the hawk’s food source–smaller birds. In the wild, birds face constantly fluctuating food supplies, so songbirds, doves, and hawks alike will survive by finding food elsewhere. Try putting your feeders up again in a week or two. The songbirds and doves will come back but, with luck, the hawk will have found better hunting grounds somewhere else. You can learn more about feeder problems and solutions at our Project FeederWatch web site.
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