[YaYa123]

Hawks are killers. Last year I heard a huge ruckus in my backyard, a flock crows were screeching like crazy, and I caught just a fleeting glance of a big hawk flying away, with a crow in his talons. I can't hate hawks, I know they got babies to feed, but I don't like em. Not after I came home and saw one sitting on a tree stump in my back yard....eating one of my prettiest koi!

[Bonaparte]

I had to put a weldwire cover over a friend's koi pond for just the reason you've cited. Raptors and racoons.

[Lazamataz]

I can't hate hawks, I know they got babies to feed, but I don't like em.

Hawks are one of the most magnificent animals in the world.

But so are dogs. And small ones and hawks don't mix well.

[dc27]

You have me worried. I never thought to worry about a hawk snacking on my koi. I have some large koi and would be very pissed if a hawk ate one.

[Ichneumon]

Last year I heard a huge ruckus in my backyard, a flock crows were screeching like crazy, and I caught just a fleeting glance of a big hawk flying away, with a crow in his talons.

A few Thanksgivings ago, my wife and I woke up and headed to the kitchen to start preparing the meal for the relatives who were on their way, when we looked out the kitchen window into the back yard and saw a HUGE hawk standing no more than 10 feet away, working on a big pigeon it had downed. For a while we just watched it, and didn't want to start banging pots and pans for fear of scaring it off, but after an hour it was still working at the pigeon carcass, and we had watched it for a good while, so we started making Thanksgiving dinner. Didn't matter how much noise we made, that hawk kept at his meal and didn't let us disturb him. He finally took off another hour or so later, and all that was left was a remarkably circular ring of plucked pigeon feathers around a patch of bloodstained grass. I don't know how common that is out in the country, but it was the first time we'd ever had a chance to see such a thing in urban Houston.