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Post by harrishwk on Feb 15, 2007 6:57:47 GMT -5
hi i am from scotland
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Post by picman on Mar 16, 2007 20:55:36 GMT -5
Hi my name is Clyde and I saw this location post days ago.What caught my attention first was your user name Harrishwk.I live in Nevada,USA.The first bird I had great enjoyment with was a female Harris hawk I named GERTRUDE.I had a friend who had just gotten his first large hawk.A Swainson's hawk.He had named her ATTILA and it seemed to me that most of the few falconers in our area always named their birds with grand names that seemed to imply how great that bird would be.I went with Gertrude as a way of a joke to all of them.She fooled most of them because of her name and they all seemed to think she was just another well fead pet that a 16 year old boy owned.Not so.I was walking her in the snow one winter day and a small van drove by me and stopped just up the road.I lived in the country and he had stopped near the land owned by a doctor.Out of the side came this flash of brown and the red wing color of the harris.She flew down into the feild and took a quail out of a covey of maybe 20.He had cut me off.I was on my way to the same feild.
Gertrude had taken a quail off the fist just a few days before that and she had caught it on the wing not more than 50 feet away in the v of a young tree.She would have had no trouble with a long glide into a snowy feild at just a few inches off the ground.Just one memory from my past.
I hope we might talk about the birds you have had and hunt now.I would also like to tell you that I have Scottish blood in me.My middle name is douglass to remind me of that.I posted a short history about my self and falconry.To Put The Glove On Again.
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Post by saltiretaxidermy on May 15, 2007 9:03:20 GMT -5
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Post by atholl44 on Jan 5, 2010 15:27:13 GMT -5
I live in the North east of Scotland right now we are having an unusally prolonged spell of snow, I fly a female red tailed hawk around 2pound 10 in her 2nd year, first year fond success difficult to come by but now Rhoda is flying with enthusiasim,and having sucess with rabbits following on through trees. The Americans have two very fine species in the red tail and Harris. Do many fly the Coopers Hawk in the UK ?
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