think i will give the lurchers up and get into these

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http://youtu.be/pl7IpgCKJc0

[Millet 4,497]

There is more to falconry than most folk think..although i think you are messing about when you say you are thinking of giving the lurcher's up..if you do decide to go the falconry route take your time to learn a good year before you think about getting a hawk.

[Millet 4,497]

Just watched the vid and i was not impressed..fancy have that poor sparrow hawk on a display..they are as wild as tit's a the best of time's so you can imagine how stressed it was..my money would be on it having no tail left by the end of the day the way it was bating about with no tail guard on it..

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true mate lurchers lot easyer love to go out and see them on the rabbits and the hares

[freelance 448]

There is more to falconry than most folk think..although i think you are messing about when you say you are thinking of giving the lurcher's up..if you do decide to go the falconry route take your time to learn a good year before you think about getting a hawk.

Good advice from millet, i got into falconry while at school and when i left i got a job doing bird control on the airbases and refuse sites down south. Had a good crack as a seventeen year old living on my own down there with my birds, when i think what i paid for a harris back then. But gave it all up when i met a falconer down there who used to dig and lamp. Thats when i got on the rocky road to dogs ! LOL Cheers Atb

[freelance 448]

Just watched the vid and i was not impressed..fancy have that poor sparrow hawk on a display..they are as wild as tit's a the best of time's so you can imagine how stressed it was..my money would be on it having no tail left by the end of the day the way it was bating about with no tail guard on it..

I your right millet, ive flew an imprint spar and there not for novices or kids at falconry center's . Fantastic little birds and are very under rated, also was lucky enough whilst darn sarf to witness merlins lark hawking on an airdrome, those ringing flights are something else Cheers Atb

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F.L if you want a trip out with the birds I'll sort it out with my pal for you . Spot on advice from Millet when he says there is more to it than most people think and needing a mentor

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spot on that mate will i see them on the rabbits

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spot on that mate will i see them on the rabbits

and pheasants with the harris hawks, corvids if we fly the peregrine hybrids

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nice one mate if it comes off go on my land and do some hares love to see that

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nice one mate if it comes off go on my land and do some hares love to see that

 

They are finished moulting now so a couple of weeks to get them fit

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how do you get fit and no them are fit

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how do you get fit and no them are fit

 

Just get them free flying to the fist again as they are left in the aviary during the moult , a couple of days free flying brings them back to full fitness levels plus we fly them around factories and that scaring problem birds away

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them hares are big it will take a lot out of the bird to kill it i think do they do just do one or two kills or more

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A female harris will nail a few hares, but kill rabbits all day. We normally ferret the rabbits for the hawks