andy64

Yer good luck mate . i`m in a similar position and it is frustrating , all the best .

Great write up mate , love a bit of Tench fishing , got me itching now haven`t been this year yet , your boy is made up , great stuff

He loves he`s brittany`s does Steve Wright , and yes it is a very good book , loads of good info , he covers quite a lot of areas of Falconry and it`s laws which is very useful , i liked the boundary law which i didn`t know until i read it in he`s book , the fact that if the game was flushed on your permission it is legally yours and you are entitled to enter neighbouring land to retrieve your hawk and game. People would anyway i`m sure, but how many would know that they are legally entitled to do so , i for one wouldn`t have known that if i hadn`t read this book.

Read the Lee Harris book mate will have a look for the Bob Dalton book , a lot of people slag the Lee William Harris book off , but you take from it what you can , didn`t think it was that bad i still have it so will read it again at some point. Currently reading Falconry The Essential Guide by Steve Wright (not the DJ) ................again , lost count how many times i`ve read my books.

Thank you both for all your advice , i have a clearer picture now of what i want to do , i`ll have to sort some sort of mentoring out , and i have a bit of work in the garden to do to make space for the mews ect , .......youcanthide...BANG it looks like a very nice bird mate and you sound like you are loving every minute with your hawk CrowHawker , yes mate i think you are right , i just went of on a tangent after reading about the CB a lot over the last week , they are lovely birds mate theres no doubt about that.

In 18 years i`ll have all the time in the world because i`ll either be well into retirement or dead ..but you do both have a point and i do love the harris hawk , i could do more than a couple of days hunting , and like i say there`s loads of land on my doorstep i can use for flying , how long have you had your male HH , is this your first bird and how did you go about getting the experience , this is what is going to hold me back if anything , i`ll have to try and sort something out.

Cheers CrowHawker yes i agree the CB is a lazy sod , i see one regular perched on a lamppost outside work he`s there all the time , and i see them regular out the back of my house soaring on the thermals , yes mate i do want to hunt with a bird but not knowing how much time i am going to have to give is a bit frustrating , like i said i have loads of land for flying on my doorstep but for bunnies i`m going to have to travel which just adds to the time i have to give and couldn`t give more than three or four days to hunting bunnies , of coarse there`s always lamping .........but that`s just

Fair point about display / pest control birds but in the main i think a Harris that is not hunted regular is a waste , i could mange two days hunting easy in fact i would do more than that , i just need to get my work situation sorted out , i don`t plan to work more than four days a week but nothing is definite yet , i just don`t want to get a bird and not do it justice. I always thought if i did get a bird it would be a Harris but the last week or so i have been reading a lot about the common buzzard and the challenge it presents for the beginner in getting it entered ect and the fact that

Crow hawker thanks for the offer you are not that far from me once i get over the bridge , so might take you up on that, i have a fortnight off next month so will pm you nearer the time if thats ok cheers . youcanthide...BANG cheers mate but i don`t think an owl is for me mate i`m not getting up in the middle of the night to take him for his fly ................ if i did get a CB i would hunt with the bird and try and get the bird entered , what i wanted to know was how much hunting not days flying would be ok for the bird, the bird would be flown most days , i don`t think it is acceptab

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Hi, Not at all crow hawker this is why i asked the question , when i say i have a decent knowledge it is in general and mostly from books ect, i have been out a couple of times with lads and there hawks but just as an observer . Yes i do know that Buzzards soar for hours on the thermals and i have the land and space local to me to do this , it was more of the hunting aspect i was bothered about not the flying , i have been out with a red tail before and know that they can be stubborn little buggers but also are excellent hunters as this one was. I don`t mean to take the CB lightly and i do

Hi, Due to time constraints and kids and other factors in the past i have never thought it was the right thing to do in getting a Hawk, i have been interested in BOPs and birds in general for a long long time , over the last five or six years i have read just about every book there is on Harris Hawks and birds of prey. In November i will be made redundant from the job i`m in after eleven years of 60-70 hr weeks , now this has got me thinking, and not for the first time that maybe now is the time for me to realise my ambition to have a bird. However i still need to work but with the kids gro

Hi all, Thanks for the welcome , jjm no mate i don`t have a HH at the moment , i`ve been into birds of prey for as long as i can remember and nearly got one a couple of years ago but had to be honest with myself and i just didn`t have the time because of work and working mad hours ect , being made redundant in october or november after elleven years so will have to find a new job and then we will see , have been out with mates and there hawks a few times so have very limited experience.

Hi, I`m Andy living in Carmarthenshire , i`m very interested in Harris Hawks and falconry in general , i`m a keen coarse fisherman and don`t mind a bit of ratting with my air rifle now and again. Looks a great forum and looking forward to getting to know you all . Cheers Andy.