Bird Identification: CLOSED: Can Anyone Tell Me What Type of Hawk This Is?, 2 by BowFromMI

BowFromMI wrote:
Can anybody tell me what type of hawk this is? He's up at the northern end of lower Michigan. His entire undersides (belly and wings) is mostly white. He's a cool bird, but has just taken up sitting around my yard and picking off my chickens... about 20 or so, so far this summer. My yard looks like a battleground with piles of feathers everywhere.

It's pretty cool, when he has one of my chickens, I can walk right up on him and he won't leave the chicken... I can walk up to within a couple feet of him, then he just tries to hop away dragging the chicken... I could grab him if I wanted to, but that doesn't look like too good of an idea, he looks pretty pissed at me.

Any ideas to keep him away from the yard and chickens... I chase him away constantly, but obviously can't do that full time... Don't know if it's legal to kill a hawk or not, but hate to do that, he's such a cool bird... but hate to keep feeding him my chickens either...