eagle 200 mile's bk home

[MacaHawk]

eagle has landed, click the link,
http://www.thesun.co.uk/article/0,,2-2006140062,00.html

[ChakChek]

thats pretty impressive!

whats not so impressive is the way the dinlow writer has written it...

"the pet was removed..."

"i was flying my HAWK

AND they got expert words from an RSPCA spokesman

some poeple :roll:

[Jackson]

wow!! impressive!!

although wouldnt class an eagle as a pet!

[Tim Laycock]

“I have been involved in falconry from the age of nine but the furthest I have know them stray is about 10 miles.”

Is this bozo for real :rolleyes:



An RSPCA spokesman said: “It is very rare for an eagle to fly that sort of distance.”

I dont need to even comment on this mine of information :rolleyes:

[ChakChek]

“I have been involved in falconry from the age of nine but the furthest I have know them stray is about 10 miles.”

Is this bozo for real :rolleyes:



An RSPCA spokesman said: “It is very rare for an eagle to fly that sort of distance.”

I dont need to even comment on this mine of information :rolleyes:

hahaha bozo!! what a word! i havent used that in years. as of now im gunna make sure i over use it!

cant really complain too much though as it was written in the sun

[Gosman_2]

hahaha bozo!! what a word! i havent used that in years. as of now im gunna make sure i over use it!

cant really complain too much though as it was written in the sun
dont belive everything u read in the press !!!;) ;)

[SSL]

dont belive everything u read in the press !!!;) ;)

Sounded like publicity for a Falconry Centre to me too...

Steve.

[Tim Laycock]

Bozo just came to me :lol:

Aint pulled that one out of the hat for at least 15 years :supz:

[Liam Hay]

Titus is just about to open a centre at malham, hmmm makes u wonder

Liam

[SSL]

Titus is just about to open a centre at malham, hmmm makes u wonder

Liam

Great minds...

Steve.

[Joey]

i think that titus guy bough black sparrow hawks of my mentor. he does days out with black eagles aan other bops so i think its a bit of pubicity stunt myself


cheers joey

[Liam Hay]

he does have a pair of black spars

[Joey]

it must be the same dude hes a bit full of him self because he flys eagles he couldnt stop showing off telling us you will never see eagles like mine

pchay do u know the guy ask did he by his black spars of a scouse **** with finnish gosses and a female spar

[Liam Hay]

yeah he told me he got them from a shed in liverpool

Liam

[Joey]

ye the me mentor sold him them through some gob***** he couldnt keep them he recons they were dual imprints

[Falconer1000]

i read about this in the sun today and i must say it didn't mention anything about a centre, if it's true it would be a truly amazing story of loyatly anyone know who he might ahve susposidly sold the bird to the only person i know of it that area is ray pryior.

lets try and find him out.

[Liam Hay]

the sun is just the start as he has been in local Tv up here, i am sorry but i personally don't believe this is anything more then pr for his new centre.

Hey i could be wrong but doubt that

Liam

[RWR]

Sorry I find it hard to believe do you not think :?:

[RWR]

Did not mean I do not belive you PC HAY

[Kennelre]

Oh dear....I read the story and got all tearfull and romantic, then I read all your comments and it's gone and spoilt it all :( :(

[BHawk]

sort of reminds me of my old bosses wifes redtail, it flew off once when out hunting and wasnt seen for months untill one day when her kids were walking back from school down the lane the redtail appeared and followed them back, the redtail had some fun in the wild but came back when he wanted! well thats as much as i remember of the story, sara (as the falcon has her bells) might know the story better:lol:

[Jester]

this was printed in the sun though :roll:



the same paper that a couple of weks ago told us there were only 8 burrowing owls in the country and showed a picture of a barn owl as an adult burrowing owl :roll: :roll:

[BHawk]

8, i used to see a breeding pair near thorp perrow by the road, there was a breeding pair at the edge of bedale aswell, definately not rare. the paper should at least try to find facts! the internet isnt that hard to use, noticed how the paper calls it a pet!

[Tim Laycock]

You cant believe anything unless its in the sport! :supz:

[Hacker]

The Sunday edition!

[Tim Laycock]

The sunday edition is reserved for the real hard hitting facts :yawinkle:

[Kentish Falconry]

Why don't Titus answer this himself he is a member of the Forum but I can't remember his user name, I will have to look and see if I can find it. :lol:

[Terry S]

Yes Rspca and expert in the same sentence!!! Strange!!! doesnt happen often!! T

[Hawkmaster]

I don't see why it is not possible I was flying a Female Gyr/Saker over 5 miles from home and it was her first time there. Lost her and I tracked her all the way home waiting for me!

This also never only happened once either!

[Barbary Boy]

seen it on the news tonight, it was a tawney eagle i think? and hed sold it for £3000 ? £3000 for a tawney eagle?

[Tim Laycock]

I think its highly possible I just dont know why he hammed it up so much(Well thats a lie, I know full well :lol:)

[Kentish Falconry]

seen it on the news tonight, it was a tawney eagle i think? and hed sold it for £3000 ? £3000 for a tawney eagle?

His name is not Titarse for nothing Pal:twisted:

Come on Titus lets hear your side of it and don't ring me type your answer lol
Terry

[Onyx25]

His name is not Titarse for nothing Pal:twisted:

Come on Titus lets hear your side of it and don't ring me type your answer lol
Terry
"titarse"? come on!!! think of something original at least!! lol Yup the eagle is mine story is true wether people care to belive it or not is their decision. The newspapers have had a bloody field day with this and alot of things that I said have been twisted not beyond belief but twisted still ( e.g eagle was £2300.00 but hey that dosent sound quite so good)?This is probably why it appears to be hammed up. I do not believe for 1 minute that the bird is a "homing eagle" but the whole episode happened by accident and not design. I do think though that once the eagle was in the vicinity that she recognised her hunting ground and stayed in the area as the many sightings support. I once flew a hybrid falcon 15 miles from her usual hunting ground (a tip in fleetwood) she whent up as normal and ******ed off only to be found on her mews on fleetwood tip!!! This behavior continued every time I flew her away from this site.(this is the behaviour described as "The furthest I have known them to stray is 10 miles"
I cannot deny the timing is pretty good for us as we are opening our centre soon but if this was purely promotional don't you think we would have a website by now????? Titus

[Onyx25]

it must be the same dude hes a bit full of him self because he flys eagles he couldnt stop showing off telling us you will never see eagles like mine

pchay do u know the guy ask did he by his black spars of a scouse **** with finnish gosses and a female spar


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i think that titus guy bough black sparrow hawks of my mentor. he does days out with black eagles aan other bops so i think its a bit of pubicity stunt myself


cheers joey
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ye the me mentor sold him them through some gob***** he couldnt keep them he recons they were dual imprints

From the top then,
A never flown a black eagle in my life never claimed to but would like the opportunity to!
B " kept showing off" as far as I remember the guy I bought the birds from pestered me into coming out to see them fly I agreed to take him out for a day with the goldy which would hunt with guests off the soar something he had not seen before the offer is now withdrawn.
C The black spars in question, yes I bought the pair from a ****** dirty aviary on a council estate in liverpool. The lady who lent me the money came along for the journey was completely shocked as to the state of the aviarys for all of the birds (pair of gosses and a spar as well.) you could smell the ammonia from the living room!! The pen itself could not of been more than 5 feet high was full of rotting leaves and was also covered by a huge tree which cut out all the light?? Is this an ideal place for birds to exist let alone breed?? The birds themselves were in suprisingly good nick few broken feathers and a bit skinny but ok. I myself was very ****ed off as the male I remember being bred and watched him grow with his parents in an aviary (dual imprint my arse) and the female is a paul beven bird who to my knowledge dosent hand rear birds. If they breed for me great if not in the words of my backer "at least we have rescued them" they have a large aviary with plenty of good food and in fact are calling to each other every morning!!!
Just for the record I don't want to have a go at the previous owner as I think he had bitten off more than he could chew and was going through quite a rough time. He seemed like a fairly sound guy.
Please get off my back, get your facts straight and possibly consider a new mentor.

[Zam]

Fair play, Onyx25

I don't know you - or your errant Tawny. Or whether this whole thing is a publicity stunt.

But at least you came on the forum and put your side of things. Lesser folk would have ranted and raved and sworn and shouted.

Good for you:supz:

By the way, how many eagles do you have? Do you hunt with any/all of them?

[Onyx25]

Fair play, Onyx25

I don't know you - or your errant Tawny. Or whether this whole thing is a publicity stunt.

But at least you came on the forum and put your side of things. Lesser folk would have ranted and raved and sworn and shouted.

Good for you:supz:

By the way, how many eagles do you have? Do you hunt with any/all of them?
Just flying two at the minute but will probably fly a goldy in the winter, was toying with the idea of a marshall or something a bit exotic but still find a goldy hard to beat!! Gotta be honest though have most fun with gosses they are just a bit easier to carry lol. Bit sick of the whole press thing the phone dosen't stop ringing and they can be bloody pushy, they ring up and say were on your doorstep can we have an interview! what do you fly mate?

[Tim Laycock]

Cant argue with a man who has the balls to tell his side of the story instead of skulking behind a username :D

Fair play to ya 8-)

[Hacker]

Titus,
Me and a couple of the guys from Reading are trying to work out who it was that bought your eagle?
It obviously was not a newbie because you would not of sold it to one so he must be an experienced guy.
The reason we ask is that if the guy has bought another one, we fancy Having a get together with him and see if he fancies having a bit of a field meet so we can get a bit of eagle action down here.
Cheers