Tag Archives: harris
The Old Dog.
My old Brittany died yesterday. He was over thirteen years old and had gone totally blind and deaf. Now he is gone to the great hunting ground in the sky to hunt all the rabbits and pheasants he wants – … Continue reading
Lost
I lost my good female Harris Hawk “Martha” the other evening. It was five o’clock and the rabbits were just starting to pop their little heads out into the evening sunshine to feed. Just like I had done a hundred … Continue reading
The best and the worst of hawks
There are two types of falconers in this world; those that love Harris Hawks, and those that don’t. If everyone loved the same things, if everyone agreed on everything and thought the same the world would be a less colourful … Continue reading
An easy catch?
The other day I was out with my two year old female Harris Hawk. While waiting for the rain to stop I sat in the jeep listening to the radio before the usual ceremony of putting on my wellies and … Continue reading
Lamping
“Lamping!” “You don’t do that, do you?’’ I once sat at a table with some well known British falconers, purists from ‘Ye Olde Scool of Fauconrie’- you know the type, when I happened to mention that my female Redtail was … Continue reading
A good beginner’s bird
‘Hello, my name is …………, I want to get into falconry and I was half thinking of getting a ……. (in this space put anything from a bat falcon to a lammergeyer), but, the only birds available seem to be … Continue reading