Post by Falcon Boy on Apr 24, 2004 17:31:56 GMT -5
My first year someone actually took my trap. I was across the street yelling that it was mine and then i ran across after them and they zoomed away with it. Not a fun thing really....
Falcon Boy Apprentice Falconry Administrator
Ethics make the individual, not the other way around.
funny I don't have quite the same problem as you guys down in the States. I prop that up to population density I guess. I haven't had anyone threaten my bird yet, I haven't had anyone take one of my traps yet, although i think someone let my rabbit go, out of my bc trap. And I've been invited to a hunting dog field trial this fall oh and I had someone ask if I'd come and take away the gos hawks that nestnear the duck ponds on his ranch. Hell I even have one rancher who wants me to fly crows during caving season on his ranch. But back to population density I don't know if you guys realise and check your atlasses if you dout me but British columbia covers an area about (now this does not allow for topigraphical distortion) the size of Washington state, Oregon, Nevada,California Parts of Arazona ,Idaho and Montana This is a size referrance only not an exact measuremant. Now that layed out we only have 4 millon people in BC overe 3millon live within 1 hour of the Canada US boarder, The remainder of us are spread unevenly around the province. Makes me think of the early church lead explorers .They came across a group East Coast First Nations People the old cheif welcomed then to his village. The priest desided that the old man was welcoming them on behalf of all first peoples and that the word Kanu da was the name of the nation when infact it is the word for village and that is about the population of Canada a wopping 32 millon people from coast to coast. If I'm willing to put on a little distance I don't see most hunters and those that I do see are of trhe same frame of mind lets keep away from the rift raft who hunt mostly by driving up and down the roads. And then any that do object to falconry I just tell them that because my bird has only one eye she would not survive the wild so I give her refuge and take her out hunting suddenly it's all good. A little lie and then they listen and suddenly even the use of healthy hawks isn't objectional. Anyway lost trrack of what i was trying to say something to do with trapping? see ya later Chris Foster BC Canada
Post by birdguy888 on Apr 24, 2004 19:38:43 GMT -5
That's cool that you don't have as much population right where you are! Convienetly where I live, a 10 minute drive in one direction and I'm in the desert and in the other direction I'm in the forested mountains. The closest I've gotten to "easy access" to gos is a rancher had a pair on his property for 19 years, they had their primary eyrie and 5 alternates all about 10 to 20 yards apart from each other, and they attacked his cows every spring and summer. When he called me to come get them they had all flown away and something must have happened because the pair never returned to there nest again!
