had a great days hawking today , went up to stanhope with my mate and his female and stella my female , it was cold and wet . but that never stopped us , started really well rabbits bolting all over , we were slipping the birds one at a time . stella got the first , was a good catch , then me mate slipped his but missed , we carried on for a few hours and bagged 4 rabbit . we moved on a bit and they were still bolting well . my bird got one through a fence and ripped half her tallon off . we patched her up and moved on . the ferret killed in so we dug that out . then the batteries went on the