Seeing young wild turkey chicks and poults taken away from their wild mothers on my homestead has been an yearly occurrence for many Springs and Summers in the mountains of North Georgia; where I live. I have observed and study wild turkeys for nearly sixty years.I have said many times, "Hawks and Owls are wild turkey pout's number one enemy". They scoop down and take-off with grown turkeys too; especially red-tail cooper's hawks.
This past Spring when on my first morning of turkey season, here in the North Georgia Mountains, I had a taxidermy grown sized hen decoy set in a logging road; before any forage had put out. Here came a Hawk sailing below the tall tree's canopy and when over the decoy, turn a sharp right turn and lit on a limb; starring down at the decoy for several minutes. Then it folded it's wings and dive-bomb down on the decoy. One foot and claw around the decoy's head; the other foot lower down grasped around the neck; flapping it's wings backward pulling the decoy to the ground. Something made a loud bang noise; and it look's like that Hawk will have a hard time eating any more wild turkeys.
