I have been slowly taking out some smaller birds around my house with my pellet gun as these birds have been shitting on everthing and all the kids toys. I wasn't make much progress and then I noticed the birds had thinned out. Well, we have a family of red tailed hawks (chicken hawks) that have taken up residence in a big pine tree on my street and these guys have been eating really well. There are 5 of them. I have never seen hawks group together like this, but they are really cool. They are even helping me with the rabbit control. I love these guys! (And they don't poop on my stuff)