They almost got them......

[breeder]

today i let 7 of my birds out.....and they wer flying together for the first time...i loved that look...but the next thing i saw was three not 1 or 2 but three hawks...i try to call them in but they woudnt...i stayed about 2 hours outside so that the hawk wont try anything...that was close...i need some advice on how can i train them to go in when i want them to go in????...any advice..

[Grim]

I have some birds now that have been chased by hawks so many times now when they see them they drop out of the sky right to the trap.

You have to remember when hawks are around the bird is actually safer staying in the air, when it lands or comes in to land it is an easy target. So this means a bird is going to ignore a feed call to the loft when it is nervous. You can see they will fly very quickly and make several very fast flights around the loft before coming in when frightened.

It took my birds quite some time to learn they need to enter upon landing.

[RodSD]

Those probably are migrating hawks. It could be a family, too. When I was gifted 8 pigeons this January, the first time I released them, there was a hawk in the air. Same experience as yours. The second time I released them I got attacked. I tried to call my birds in too, but sometimes they just want to run away from the hawk and comes back later or the next day.

My experience is that if they haven't got scared too much, when you call them (I assume you trained them to go inside when called), they will go in. They might even go in voluntarily.

It is true that they are safer in the sky against hawk. I don't know about falcon. Grim is right on everything he said.

I am supposing that you trained your birds on a whistle or feed shaking sound during feed time. No?

I noticed that in my birds when they are flying and I whistle and show them the feed can, they actually look down from the sky and then drops down.