barbary/prairie tiercel

[Mark Collins]

Hi , out with my little pocket rocket again today, change in the weather winds dropped, suns out , gonna catch everybody out as all birds like to sunbathe especially small tiercels, yesterday put him up over some farm buildings , started flushing starlings from the cattle yard 2 stoops , then went up on the soar , little git left him for a while got him back in, today put him over scrubby bank 2 magpies marked in and got a beeter thought we was in , we must have had 10 good stoops , really putting the pressure on , pushed one to a smaller isolated bush , do you think he would come over little ****** , of soaring again getting higher and higher, trimmed his weight for today didnt make any differance , trimmed him for monday , thats the problem with imprints , always flown at a high weight, all week he has been right over me , good pitch and a wave of the glove brings him over if he wanders, tommorow i pray for a cloudy day , he was weathered all morning today , and will weather for a good time tommorow if sunny , cold weather would help today was like b****Y spring , anyway heres some pictures, cheers , mark.

[MitchellBrad]

Nice pictures Mark. A friend 8 or 10 yrs ago had a little barbary/prairie falcon that was a chicken kill'n fool. It took her a couple of years to get it right but when she did she was great.

Brad

Hi , out with my little pocket rocket again today, change in the weather winds dropped, suns out , gonna catch everybody out as all birds like to sunbathe especially small tiercels, yesterday put him up over some farm buildings , started flushing starlings from the cattle yard 2 stoops , then went up on the soar , little git left him for a while got him back in, today put him over scrubby bank 2 magpies marked in and got a beeter thought we was in , we must have had 10 good stoops , really putting the pressure on , pushed one to a smaller isolated bush , do you think he would come over little ****** , of soaring again getting higher and higher, trimmed his weight for today didnt make any differance , trimmed him for monday , thats the problem with imprints , always flown at a high weight, all week he has been right over me , good pitch and a wave of the glove brings him over if he wanders, tommorow i pray for a cloudy day , he was weathered all morning today , and will weather for a good time tommorow if sunny , cold weather would help today was like b****Y spring , anyway heres some pictures, cheers , mark.