It’s something I’ve had years dealing with when I use to have chickens, the bantam rooster would sound the alarm when the hawk would fly over, more times than not, that roosters first awareness of a hawk flying by was its (the hawks) shadow on the ground. Then the rooster would run up under our house - it’s on stilts because of flooding where we live, and he’d wait just at the edge for the hens who would hurriedly get under the house with him.

Spouse told me they saw the first time the rooster used this tactic against the hawk, and the hawk, who’d already caught and killed two of the chickens before, didn’t realize it’d made a serious miscalculation and almost cost it its life, because when it attacks prey, it swoops down on it, and I’ve seen hawks catch squirrels this way, when they attack, it’s with their talons, and they are super sharp and their grip is startling strong (husband rescued a fledgling whose tree, its nest was in, in a large pine, got blown down from a bad storm); so saw the hawk, all in one motion, swoop down, hit its prey (a really fat squirrel messing around on the ground a few feet off from some trees), squeezed it completely in half, and pull back up in the air about three feet off the ground, then glide back down to the ground still holding on to part of the squirrel it caught.

So, back to the hawk nearly costing it its own life: hawk decides to dive bomb the last hen trying to make it under the house (it’s 12 feet up under our house, so people can comfortably stand under it), it dives and swoops under, the rooster runs back midway as the hawks coming in, all the hens made it and are already behind him, then as the hawk makes it under, it immediately goes to swoop back up and blam! connects with the bottom flooring of our house and then immediately drops back onto the ground (soft dirt), then in an instance, our tiny little bantam jumped that hawk, and as my spouse had stated it to me all those years ago: “He tore his ass up!” My spouse got to witness all this firsthand because they were already under the house “piddling around.” Said the hawk tried to fight, but that little bantam got the better of him, hawk didn’t understand how a rooster with two inch spurs are designed to fight. Spouse said the hawk “flopped” its way back out from under the house with that little rooster kicking and pecking him the whole way, and then took off and flew away. And though I didn’t get to see the fight I did get to see all the feathers, mostly hawk ones, all under one end of the house where the fighting from the little rooster took place.

Ugh, sorry my story was so long.