30 December 2020, 09:47
Use Enough GunBeautiful birds! Looks like a hen pheasant that the one has caught. Can you catch game birds with them?
01 January 2021, 23:20
UtahLeftyWe've killed about two dozen pheasants over the years with a smattering of quail and chukars but game birds are more suited to falcons than hawks. Our kills have been mostly opportunistic while after ground game.
29 January 2021, 15:09
Johnny rebWish you were closer, something I would like to experience.
11 February 2021, 11:46
Charlie64.
Wonderful pictures and congrats on the season. Falconry is something very special !
Thanks for sharing.
Charlie
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29 April 2021, 19:23
Big Wonderful WyomingI know nothing of falconry in America.
I had a European Buzzard (like a red tailed hawk) when I lived in Italy. She was clumsy, but was hell on rabbits. I agree that hawks aren't the best suited birds for game birds.
She had something wrong with her vision and ended up smacking into a truck.
I can't remember, but I gave about $600 for her as a started 3 year old.
Living in Sicily, I wanted to get her mounted when she died, and I had her in the deep freeze for the last year I was there but couldn't figure out how to get it done.
I paid about $800 for a week long falconry course in the UK in 2006.
If we end up moving back to Germany I think I am going to go back and take a falconry course in Germany, especially if we end up with a house that would work for that.
A friend in Rheinland Pfalz had eagles!
One year in Farson WY, we met a falconer who'd come from Philadelphia with his dogs and birds.
He told us he came two weeks before the season opened to condition the dogs and birds to the altitude.