Had a first happen to me!

[seth30]

Got to one of my ponds this morning and put my decoys out around 0600.  Sat back and waited for the shooting time .  Well around 0630 my labs start perking up and a rush of wings went right over our head and I hear a large smack on one of my decoys.  It was still pretty dark, but the wingspan was massive, and looked to big to be a owl.  I couldnt make out any colors but by the way it came and went it sure was a bird of prey.   Do eagles hunt in the dark   How many of you have had your decoys attacked?  It sure did remove the need for a cup of coffee pretty quick

[jager]

Twice I've had hawks attack my decoys on the little potholes I hunt on. Pretty cool to watch.

[seth30]

If there was a little more light I would have tried to film it.  To tell you the truth it starteld the heck out of me

[dreamunelk]

Cool!   You assumption of an owl is most likely the correct one. 

[seth30]

maybe a great horned owl It was too big to be a barn owl or barred owl.

[WCTaxidermy]

Did it get away with your decoy?

[seth30]

No it sure did smack it really good though. 

[jager]

Both times I've had it happen they just hit it and go...they don't like the hard plastic 

[seth30]

Both times I've had it happen they just hit it and go...they don't like the hard plastic 

I glad they dont like it, could you imagine coming home without all the decoys you put out

[Mackerson]

I had a bald eagle swoop down and hit a dead greenhead that was still on the pond....that was pretty awesome.  Never a decoy though.

[seth30]

one thing for sure, Green Head Gear is not just for waterfowl

[GregFowler23]

Had the same thing happen to me last year. It was actually light enough out to see. So saw the owl up in a tree, couple minutes later it flew down an attacked my decoy the same way you discribed your incident. Only this owl came back a second time an did the exact same thing. picked up the decoy and it was destroyed. Unbelievable to have actually see it happen.

[Widgeondeke]

Had a Great Blue Heron dive bomb my heron decoy. That was cool @ 20 yds.

[ICEMAN]

Very cool seth!

[bigcans]

cool, I've been using GBH decoys for a long time. Today, I had mine perched on some cut logs and saw a great blue squawk when leaving a tree but he didn't swoop down and fly across the pond to where i was at.