No worries. I was surprised with how well my schedule worked out last season. Had a rough season due to my bird getting a severe case of Cappilaria. He battled through it and lived though. After having to force feed him for over a week though he held a grudge and would only ever come back to me if I was about 5 feet from him and the season was ending so I fattened him up and let him go. Glad I did catch him though because he would of died had he not got a dose of Ivermectin. It's all about the birds.
Joseph S Landewee Kearney, Missouri "When the wilderness is raped and the last beast tamed, so too shall magic be gone from the world."
I would love to have one near KC but all of the members live closer to St. Louis. I should be an officer soon so hopefully we can make a change or two and have a meet in St Louis and then one in KC.
It doesn't matter that the greatest concentration of falconers in the state is the St Louis area. If even as many as 2 or 3 of you want to have a field meet in your area, then do it!
The meets aren't in St Louis because that's the only place to have them, or because they aren't wanted anywhere else. The meets are in St Louis because those falconers are the only ones that have bothered to put in the effort to schedule something.