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I'm sure you'll find someone close to you mate, your more likely to get a result via facebooks forums than on this one. Most falconers/Austringers I've spoke to including the one from the BFC I tried to get help from don't have enough land to fly on.
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Well I haven't seen that yet lol I'll revise my opinion to nothing I've experienced comes close to what can be done on open hill and fell. It's good to think there's still so much more to experience. I have enjoyed days out with lurchers in the heather it might not be as hilly but it's hard going walking through it and it's still in big open spaces, strangely whilst I've dabbled in all sorts of hunting I never felt like trying hare coursing on the big lands.
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The hills and fells are the only place to see good hunting. That's any hunting not just with birds of prey.
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I'll ring my keeper mate in the week and see what is available to us regarding hawking.
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It was just something mentioned a few months ago when we were chatting about Hawks.(I used to go hunting up scotland with hounds when he was keepering up there and I was explaining how I don't get time now due to hawking). Thinking about it I know a few lads all over Scotland and a mate hunts hounds near Girvan it always looked good country around there.
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I happen to know a keeper who's brother is a keeper in Scotland who said he could sort me out with blue/ mountain hare hunting. I'm thinking a weekend away when mines fitter is on the cards probably around Christmas time. If I can sort it you would be welcome to tag along mate.
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Nothing planned but I can see the appeal. On a different topic I don't know why falconers don't get together and rent land like shooters do. Six or so people putting a grand a year into it rearing pheasant and feeding duck ponds etc would be great and a cheap way to ensure sport and quarry. Maybe this does happen, I'd jump at the chance to join such a syndicate within an hours drive of where I live. Back on topic I have nothing planned but if the opportunity arises I'd go. Not so much to fly my own hawk or to see other Harris Hawks but I want to see Falcons, Gosses and other species out
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It was a bit too windy on the land we've been going on. Maybe in time on some spots with a fitter and more experienced hawk I'll give it a go but I didn't want to chance it today. So we went out local, my hawk disappeared on me but when I got out of the wooded, thick undergrowth area my mate told me where she was. She had gone on a bit of a soar before smashing into a tree scattering pigeons. Later on she followed a pheasant into a wood and wouldn't come back so I had to bash around in the cover underneath her until she was convinced nothing was there. I don't know why I bother to try to get h
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Double posted.
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We were due to have strong winds today so the idea was to go lamping with lurchers but seeing as it turned out to be still night with not a single gust I put the hawk in the motor as well. She was a touch heavy but flew the first rabbit keenly. It escaped into a wall. With no wind and a clear sky the rabbits weren't out in numbers and what had ventured out were far away. Just when I thought she wouldn't get another flight we spotted a bunny in the middle of a big field, real text book stuff. My mate let me get to the side of it before giving full beam and as the rabbit set off running the hawk
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I took my pup to work today, it's great for them because they get to see people and used to noise. At lunchtime I took her onto a patch of wasteland where a few rabbits were running around. She spent twenty minutes with her nose to the ground enjoying herself. I find pups hard work but they are fun at times. My hawk seems to be getting used to the sight of her and is screaming less, she takes an age to get used to a new dog. After work I put a telemetry mount on my mates hawk and a bell. With only an hour before it got dark and with my hawk overweight after yesterday's big feed I didn't e
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I just don't get why people want these birds without wanting to do right by them. Mind every time I go abroad now the hotels always have a bird of prey night in the bar where various birds are stroked and passed around the kids whilst having flashes from cameras going off in their faces. It pisses me right off and I always wonder how many from the thousands who watch these "shows" get back home and buy a Birdtrader cheap as chips bird of prey.
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Good luck with it. A car boot sale!!!! The mind boggles at why some people end up with Hawks.
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I'm enjoying it but I worry when she's soaring. "Round the doors" it's just tree to tree and little short flights but on open land she can see stuff in the distance. She's always been a headache if she sees a pheasant and her recall can be iffy if she thinks a phessie is about. I don't know why she's only had a couple.
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I might have made it sound grander than it was lol. Other parts are just a steep bank down to the river covered in bracken. Just typical she caught something in a dodgy spot.
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Ha There's no way I could have found her, I'd seen most of the flight but I lost sight of her as she flew around the valley. It's not a big area but the terrain made things difficult. In the end she was stood on a big rocky ledge surrounded by cover and trees. I'd been looking at that area from the other side and my mate was above her for some time. With the wind and the river you'd never hear her bell until close up. It's too dangerous to just start scaling up and down the whole valley. I suppose in time or by going back this morning I'd have found her but by then she might have moved, many
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What an absolute nightmare. After work we travelled up to a dales area. I knew it was a bit windy but thought I could control the situation. I was wrong,I had a Harris Hawk that was bang on weight and wanted to catch something. She soared around using the strong winds to her advantage. What resulted was a forty minute search on a steep sided ravine until I found my hawk on its kill. Without telemetry I would never have located her, she was sixty feet down from the top of the fields in a big patch of bracken and trees literally sticking straight out from a vertical rock face. I struggled to
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My mates hawk is instantly flying the length of the creance, I'm looking forward to seeing it out flying free. I also showed the pointer pup the ferrets and chickens. I like to get pups around stock as much as possible as soon as possible. I only managed half an hour out with mine today, she twice flew over to trees and starting looking down as they do when they know something is there. This is nothing new but today she started chirping on and getting herself all excited. Both times the pointer flushed the rabbit but they easily escaped into thicker cover, still it's new behaviour from he
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Yeah we are getting out, there's been a bad outbreak of Mixy not too far away from our dales permissions and it's around the local areas so I'm expecting it to have an effect on my season sooner or later. I bet your itching to be out with her mate, if the rain holds off were out with my mates tonight on a creance line. If that goes ok she'll be flying free by the weekend.
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We couldn't go hunting as planned due to it raining so had to rush over to other land where the Met Office were saying it wasn't. We only had an hour before dark and my hawk was soaring around missing a couple of rabbits but then seemed to sulk up trees or sit on the ground. Rabbits were running all over and she seemed oblivious to them. I thought it might be down to having a dog out with us but surely she hasn't gone back to being silly over canine help and anyway she had flown a rabbit well that he had put up earlier. There were Pheasants in the bracken and she will ignore rabbits if she thi
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They can be hard work and need a lot of excise but I like the way they hunt and as you say they are "proper" dogs.
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We went for an hours walk locally with my hawk doing a bit of hunting whilst my mate kept his on the glove. We should have his hawk flying free by the weekend. Two rabbits were missed and a few other things were spotted but it's hard to say what species were in the cover. I didn't take a dog as we didn't know how the other hawk would act around strange dogs. The covers way too thick to hunt without a dog, it's crazy this year. We couldn't stay out long as I had to pick up my pointer pup.
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She's getting a few kills but it's still hard going at times, the reed covered dales aren't as affected by cover as other areas but most rabbits are in the bracken banks it seems. It will be better once the colder weather knocks everything down a bit. My mates been dropping his hawks weight and we fitted anklets etc today. She's footy and will need a bit of manning but I expect we will have her out in about a week or so.
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My hawk missed a couple of rabbits this afternoon before she flew into a tree. She then took off across the field and I thought she was acting up. She wasn't though and after soaring around she dived down into the reeds but missed the rabbit and flew up on to the bank. She clearly thought the rabbit was still there and was proved right as I flushed it again and after a long flight over the reeds she caught it. After that she missed another few rabbits before circling over a big area of rushes and after a few failed attempts caught a rabbit. She was being dragged through the cover and I sprinte
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How's she progressing mate?
