finished mews and start of my diary

[jasper65 6]

I think you have now had all these Tirings lark rammed down your throat until you are blue in the face saxon , although a bird like a Harris certainly won't need to be as food occupied like a more arsey natured bird! Harris's are gregariouse by nature and come on quickly. carry on with what you are doing mate! its a Harrishawk not a loonatic thats caused you grief from day one. the bird reads like a bird thats coming forward fine and the sooner you get him blasting the length of the creance and off killing the better, I think I mentioned to you when you PM 'd me alot of footiness will go when you get him out Hunting and killing for a living, footiness can also be a fear response in some hawks, if its either of these and nothing to do with its rearing its not a problem at the least and easily cured..

 

Just carry on as you was and do your own thing. too much advice must be mind blowing from one person to another which will get you pretty fooking confused to say the least, Its no different than reading too many books! they all contradict each other in the end.

 

You know the basics or you wouldn't have come this far, stick to your stragedy from day one and aim to get him loose and Hunting, more Manning will also be aplied while in the field and getting the bird out and about aswel as fitness and conditioning. I'm sure all will be fine .

[saxonmaster 74]

cheers mate im very happy with the way things are going and rob (mentor) says the same as you it all sounds fine. I cant expect it to go totally smooth and this jesses thing is just a test for me and Thor and in the end it will make us understand each other a lot better by the end but im sure other tests will come up. Nothing seems to faze Thor other than this jesses thing, Dogs, kids, strangers, different locations, ferrets hes a great bird mate but i never push him to hard. As ive said before if it take an extra week or 2 to get him free then so be it all this stuff you read about getting a bird free within 2 weeks just rushes people i think. hopefully we will have many years flying so whats a week or 2 Top man tony

[waidmann 105]

i would also say that on the wholethings are going well, if the jesses are bothering you i would get some help changing them ( a tight fit is good in my eyes lol) when they are out grease them up and back in( i use ko chao line), they shouldfit better then.

 

my mate had his free again lastnight, tried her on the rabbit carcass ( she hit it like a tram with a good head hold both times) let herfeed up and he managed a good exchange.

 

waidmannsheil!

[saxonmaster 74]

Really productive day today took Thor down to see my mate and see if we can do some work with him with touching the jesses and stuff. Got straight to work on changing the jesses and Rob noticed when i was putting my hard towards the jesses i had the back of my hand facing Thor so he said try turning your hand over so he can see its empty and it worked straight away got the jesses out changed them over for the new ones and put in the right way and i put on some field jesses to then we worked on touching his chest again showed him the under side of my hand first and no problem just a couple of pecks but nothing major. Then we bowed him up while Rob showed me how he hoods his hawks and falcons but we didnt try Thor as we didnt want to push it and i wanted to put him on the creance as his weight was down at its lowest so far at 1lb 5 1/8oz. So we made are way to a field and put Thor on the creance and he responded almost instantly but as he done more he was responding faster each time so we done 5 and then on his last one gave him a good feed. As Thor was eating i was touching his feet and helping him break up the food and helping him feed which went great. Rob says there is no problem with him being footy at all and says he is a very steady bird we finished the day by flying his laner and his Bengal and European eagle owls so all in all a great day.

[saxonmaster 74]

i would also say that on the wholethings are going well, if the jesses are bothering you i would get some help changing them ( a tight fit is good in my eyes lol) when they are out grease them up and back in( i use ko chao line), they shouldfit better then.

 

my mate had his free again lastnight, tried her on the rabbit carcass ( she hit it like a tram with a good head hold both times) let herfeed up and he managed a good exchange.

 

waidmannsheil!

 

nice one cheers mate, glad your mates hawk is going well mate good news with rabbit carcass to

[jasper65 6]

onwards and upwards now Saxon! you'll be on a mission soon pal

[saxonmaster 74]

onwards and upwards now Saxon! you'll be on a mission soon pal

 

cheers skin just going to really go with the flying now mate and no looking back. It was so nice just having someone with me today and just to give me that confidence and advice where needed thanks again mate

[jasper65 6]

I know what you're saying mate! its a big adrenllin shot when you get some moral support from people around you,

 

Big up pal things are looking good! Oi for England

[saxonmaster 74]

I know what you're saying mate! its a big adrenllin shot when you get some moral support from people around you,

 

Big up pal things are looking good! Oi for England

 

oi oi oi

[saxonmaster 74]

Got Thor flying the length of the creance this afternoon at 1lb 5 1/4oz responding straight away but then he kept leaving his perch before i had turn round to call him wasnt to sure how to deal with this so just returned him to the perch with no food. Looks like the weather is meant to be bad with local flooding all week or i would let him go free this week so looks like ill have to put it on hold a few more days.

[mick1212 389]

Got Thor flying the length of the creance this afternoon at 1lb 5 1/4oz responding straight away but then he kept leaving his perch before i had turn round to call him wasnt to sure how to deal with this so just returned him to the perch with no food. Looks like the weather is meant to be bad with local flooding all week or i would let him go free this week so looks like ill have to put it on hold a few more days.

thats a good sign he his getting keener time for the telemetry and get him enterd id still take 3gram off him when letting him free so hes a bit keener but would have to feel his keel first sounds like your doing well

[seany 54]

Well done for all your hard work mate, i bet your exhausted, mentally aswell. Keep going with the diary it's a good read

 

ATB Seany

[saxonmaster 74]

cheers lads, i would like him a bit lighter for when i let him free gave him a good feed and im getting his weight down now ready for the big day hopefully over the weekend but i want to show him the dummy bunny before i do and see if he will respond to it. It has been exhausting to be honest but enjoyable as i said before all i think about at the moment is doing his training, planning my next move and so on but its paying off now. Wish i didnt listen to the weather forcast it hardly rained but i had already gave him a good feed so just been doing lots of manning touching his feet, jesses and i gave him a rabbit leg and he was letting me pull bits of meat off for him and give it to him so hopefully i have that cracked now. Start spending a bit more time doing some conditioning training with the dog now, it never ends hahaha

[gilly-93 31]

hi mate its looking good,thor's ready if he's coming to you before your in position.. knock a knacker more off him the night before and let him go in the morning, he'll come nowt no sure.... dont go the full distance though10 then 15 then 20feet short flights you'll probably want to bob him back on the creonce thinking "thank f##k for that " thats ok its a confidence thing.....forget the bunny for now just get the recall good....watch his weight and its all good.

[saxonmaster 74]

hi mate its looking good,thor's ready if he's coming to you before your in position.. knock a knacker more off him the night before and let him go in the morning, he'll come nowt no sure.... dont go the full distance though10 then 15 then 20feet short flights you'll probably want to bob him back on the creonce thinking "thank f##k for that " thats ok its a confidence thing.....forget the bunny for now just get the recall good....watch his weight and its all good.

 

hi mark good to hear from you mate. hows ruby doing ? thats the plan to do a few practice runs on the creance before letting him go then just go for it, cant wait to see him in the trees then start on entering him. god its going to be one busy season