We have a pretty good bird population where we fly - all sorts of birds. Birds of prey you don't see that often since they are mostly at the dam down the road. But sometimes you will have a bird of prey circuling in our airspace. They never really do anything - just check things out. Once in a while one will follow your plane around. We did have one incident when I was up with my Stryker. Can't remember what bird it was - but it came for my Stryker with claws out. I just pushed hard elevator and full throttle and went straight for the ground - the bird then seem to just pull out and went back to minding it's own business.

But yeah when other birds comes along we usually chase them with the airplanes. They cross over us when the go to the water.