Bore us with rehashed subjects?? Are yoy kidding? Those are the ones we've already studied and we know the answers to! They make us feel smart ! Besides that, everytime an old subject comes up a new twist is added. Go ahead and bore us!!! ;D
Wow...I wish we had more guests like you! I had to correct 3 "rehashed subjects" in a row, of people who didnt bother to search for information on the forum first. Let me start off by welcoming you to the forum and THANKYOU!
Hiya all im alex smith and i live in california and i am not a hawker yet but i hope to become one soon i am looking for people to go hunt with a few times o see how they handle their birds etc. please send me a pm if u will take me hunting i live near sacramento
Post by LadyFalconer on Jun 15, 2004 13:26:49 GMT -5
Hi, I`m a General Falconer from Raleigh NC. We have Red tails,Red Shoulders, Coopers, Kestrals, Bald Eagles,Marsh hawks. Towards our coast I`m sure there are ospreys. I'm flying a RT tiercel named Louie . He is my 2nd. bird. I released my first bird a year ago this past November. My husband and I are both falconers. It is a way of life for us. We also have 3 teenagers so life is very busy. We're avid squirrel hawkers and rabbits are a close second. This is a great board and I look forward to reading some good hunting stories. Hope everyones bird is going through a happy healthy molt.
Welcome to the list. We hope to see ya post with us and add to the confusion we so love to create. Hey, It's nice to see other fellow squirrel hawkers around too. ;D
Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines "Give a man a fish, and you'll feed him for a day; give him a religion................ and he'll starve to death while praying for a fish."
Hi,everybody here. I am from China. Shanghai city, maybe you know this city. Falconry in China is illegal. But it is a folk tradition in many remote place.
In my place, shanghai, there is only common kestrel you can see around the year. and in spring and autumn, goshawk, sparrowhawk and so on.
I don't know why I can't register in this forum? I want know more about falconry, but I won't practise this.
Post by PiousDesperado on Jul 21, 2004 23:41:43 GMT -5
Just outside of Idaho Falls, Idaho, you can find 5 species of falcon (Peregrine, Prarie, Gyr-, Kestrel, and Merlin) and many hawks. The most abundant of the hawks is the Red Tail, of course, though a rabbit shortage has turned most local R.T.s into mouseivores. So apprentices don't have much of a choice. Whether with a Kestrel or a Red Tail, they'll be hunting mostly vermin. As for airborne quarry, Southeast Idahoan falconers have it made. We have miles and miles of sage desrert just TEXTloadedTEXT with upland game fowl from pheasant and grouse to chuckars. Plus the waterfowl populations aren't too shabby either.
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I would love to do some upland game hunting there. The stories are legendary. I have to travel; about six hour to get to wild upland country. There are afew places that are releasing pen raised birds around here, but they just aren't he same. I hope to be flying a coop or a gos in a couple of years. Maybe i'll see you there (afteri win the lottery )
Post by PiousDesperado on Jul 22, 2004 22:54:57 GMT -5
The lottery? Psh! Don't count yourself out of the fun just yet. No one else seems to realize what a paradise it is. Except for a disgusting Californian influx in the '90s, Idaho's still relatively undiscovered. Property, rent, and taxes are LOW. Don't let money stop you from living the falconer's dream. Bonus: that neo-Nazi compound in northern Idaho was destroyed several years ago, cutting down on the state's creepiness-factor. And we have good potatoes. And Fishing. And snowboarding...
Hey Alex you're wish is my command. I live in California 40 miles south of San Francisco and 30 north of the ocean in a pretty small subarb of a town. When it comes to birds not very many REAL close but I've seen two Cooper's in a tree across the street one Red-tailed that usually is by the freeway off ramp a mile away and about a dozen kestrels within 3-5 miles. That's about it by my house but when i drive about 70 miles north to Sacramento there's every single kind of raptor known to be in California.
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