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[SteveL]

hi my name is steven and i am new to this site. i have been involved with birds of prey for the last 6 years. at the moment i have a breeding pair of redtails that have bread succesfully for the last 3 seasons. i have recently picked up a foster pair of red-tails to start double clutching, and also another female red tail to be paired up with another male. i also fly a steppe/golden eagle, 2 gyr/saker falcons, i have just recieved on saturday a 3/4 gyr 1/4 saker falcon at nine week old male weighing in at 2lb 12 fat weight which i am going to train for gull control which i recieved from berkut who i also work for doing landfill bird control. i know quite a fair bit about training and management of birds of prey but i have still got alot to learn so would like to hear any hints and tips of training and management.

[Berkut]

Hi Steven.Welcome to the forum.Glad to see you managed to get sorted.
Hope you have a bucket of water ready to cool down the keyboard after all that typing.8-)

[SteveL]

the wife did it all im relaxing with a cold beer whilst she is doing all the typing (sorted!) ;)

[Berkut]

One helpfull piece of advice during the hawking season
"Don,t eat yellow snow":twisted: :x

[SteveL]

the 3/4 gyr 1/4 saker falcon is doing great hooding well, preening and rousing on fist un-hooded, and ate 2 chicks on fist today not bad for 3rd day. although baiting alot from the block and not returning. cant thank you enough for the bird at 2lb 12 male it is an absolute topper!

[Berkut]

Good progress Steven.You,ll have her slaughtering gulls in no time.
Regular trickle of this years youngsters arriving on site now.
Another fortnight and they,ll be in in their droves.

[SteveL]

yeah i have noticed myself a few of this years youngsters trickling in. the gulls wont know whats hit them this year! :lol:

[Berkut]

Should cut the cartridge bill down.:twisted: ;-)

[Harris]

Welcome mate, Good to see you breeding RTs, they should make you a fair penny next year as they were thin on the ground this year, as demand outstripped supply! Welcome to the forum, hope you enjoy.

Simon

[Jazz1]

Hi and welcome to the forum Must be a good size male at 2lb 12oz fat weight
i am looking at get a male gyr/saker also his fat weight is 2lb 6oz.
Do you have any pics you can post m8
Cheers Gary

[SteveL]

Welcome mate, Good to see you breeding RTs, they should make you a fair penny next year as they were thin on the ground this year, as demand outstripped supply! Welcome to the forum, hope you enjoy.

Simon

Thank you for the warm welcome ,it's good to know falconers out thier still have a passion for redtiails and are making them thiet next chioce of bird. Not saying that from a breeders point of view, but for the bird in question that has been made very underated in this country due to bad trainig and managment so in turn it should be the falconer who should be underrated and not the bird.:supz:

[SteveL]

Hi and welcome to the forum Must be a good size male at 2lb 12oz fat weight
i am looking at get a male gyr/saker also his fat weight is 2lb 6oz.
Do you have any pics you can post m8
Cheers Gary

Hi gary thanks for the welcome i shall get the pics sent to you asap!, That one of yours seems a good size also. I had a 3/4 gyr 1/4 saker male last season which only weighed in at 1 lb 11 flying weight so compared to this one I've got this year it's a monster an absolute topper.:)

[Falcon]

Welcome aboard Steve, have fun on here.

[SteveL]

Hi gary thanks for the welcome i shall get the pics sent to you asap!, That one of yours seems a good size also. I had a 3/4 gyr 1/4 saker male last season which only weighed in at 1 lb 11 flying weight so compared to this one I've got this year it's a monster an absolute topper.:)

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This picture was taken earlier on today

[Jazz1]

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This picture was taken earlier on today

Cheers M8 cracking looking bird
It's the dark phase 1 that i am maybe going for.
Gary

[SteveL]

Cheers M8 cracking looking bird
It's the dark phase 1 that i am maybe going for.
Gary

glad you like the pic when you get your gyr/saker send me a few pics of him. I'll send you a few of the other gyr/sakers that i have, one is a dark phase female with the same markings as the pic i sent you, and ther other is a male that is snow white down his chest and a hint of fawn through his wings and head.Just bare with me on that i'm just getting the hang of this picture sending.

[Falcon]

Looking good Stevel, your getting the hang of posting pics a lot quicker than Berkut did:lol: Only trouble is now Berkut has started we can't stop him:rolleyes: Mind you that said it's always nice to see pics of other peeps falcons, eagles etc, etc

[SteveL]

Welcome aboard Steve, have fun on here.

Thanks i hope i do,I've been going to join the forum for some time now and never got round to it, it was Berkut that turned me onto the forum.:supz:

[SteveL]

Looking good Stevel, your getting the hang of posting pics a lot quicker than Berkut did:lol: Only trouble is now Berkut has started we can't stop him:rolleyes: Mind you that said it's always nice to see pics of other peeps falcons, eagles etc, etc

Yeah it is good to see other peep's birds and i have to say i've seen berkuts birds in the flesh and the are all first class without a doubt.:supz: