Tiree - 2011 Male Goshawk

[Guest bullterrier]

alex cracking pictures and nice gos mate all the best in the new season mate john

[rickardo 76]

nice bird and pics, he looks a cracker

[Friar Tuck 9]

Nice mate, flew a male gos for a few years.

Edited July 16, 2012 by Friar Tuck

[BEARINATOR 2,872]

Some more good pics Alex

[AlBrown 61]

More pics from through the year

 

 

 

 

 

A few more to go.

[AlBrown 61]

From a very interesting days hawking on steep chalk downs great hawking here as you can get 60 to yards behind the warrens and some amazing long slips and chases.

 

 

Different bird (Maya female Harris) but you get the idea of the land. There's about 6 miles of hillside like this on one of the farms a bit hairy running down it..

 

 

A wee video on a cracking day out, ended up knackered after it. This was the easiest of runs for the fat lad (me)

 

 

looking through a few more.

[AlBrown 61]

Sodding poser!

 

 

His first game bird

 

 

with his hunting partner or his partner in crime.

 

 

day after collection, a pity he had a bit of a skin head, which is finally got a few feathers on it.

 

 

ATB

 

Alex

[furgle 14]

Cracking gos mate just about the size gos I will get when I get one (fingers crossed for next season ) just to fly at feather

[mick1212 389]

Sodding poser!

 

 

His first game bird

 

 

with his hunting partner or his partner in crime.

 

 

day after collection, a pity he had a bit of a skin head, which is finally got a few feathers on it.

 

 

ATB

 

Alex

 

alex hes got great manners on the kill hes a credit to you

[Millet 4,497]

Some nice Pic's there Al.. nearly as good as mine.. ..

[AlBrown 61]

TY, looking forward to his next season and a camera in my other hand. At the minute looking very nice in his new suit.

 

Alex

[AlBrown 61]

Took a couple of quick pics today of the wee fella, his moult going nicely and should be done nicely in time to be tackling corvids in September to fit'en him up for a run at gamebirds from October onwards. I started him off on a moulting powder earlier in the spring and it seemed to be working well but stopped it when the temperatures nose-dived. Now on wood pigeon 4 times a week, quail 2 times a week and a bit of rabbit a day a week.

 

 

 

left a set of jess's on him as he will happily come to the fist for food but only do it a couple of ties a week when I go in to clear away bones and any old food left about.

 

Alex

[mick1212 389]

hi alex was the moulting pwder vermx if so do you think it makes much difference

[AlBrown 61]

No it was was called moult stimulant from Dac-pharma, It worked very well at the start of the moult but I stopped using it when the weather changed for the worse and his moult stopped dead and nowt dropped for a fair while. a mate who also bought it reckoned his male gos moulted better and quicker using a mixed diet and clover honey. I wanted a quick moult to try some late summer corvid hawking, in hindsight I don't think it was really worth it and wouldn't use it again. As soon as he settled down with a good mixed diet his feathers were flying out.

 

Alex

[ayrshiretaxidermy 29]

Alex, theres a guy looking for you on the IFF. Heres a copy of his post, think his names Tomaz.

 

Hello Alex

 

I contact you by email few times but I didnt get any respond.

 

I nead to know if everything is going on plan and how is my goshawk progressing.

 

 

I nead to arange delivery so I nead to know if somewere between 25.7 and 5.8 would be o.k.

 

 

Cheers