Taiga is back ( 2007 season )

[GoshawkRST]

Third day out in the field.
Weight: around 245 grams.
Flights: 1.
Kills: 1 ( magpie ).

Good hawking !
Sergio...

[ChrisW]

Quality:supz:

[TimDog80]

sergiu,
look forward to reading your thread again mate:supz:

regards
tim:D

[Lee Brindley]

Hey Sergiu, its great to see Taiga back in action! What sort of feather condition is she in? Did she have a clean moult in the end?

All the best for the new season

Lee

[Alcon8223]

its nice to see Taiga back !
Good Hawking !

[Berkut]

Nice one Sergio.I'm having great fun with a spar this season. Glad you have her going again.
ATB,
Neil.

[Wapity]

good job Sergiu great Taiga!!!!:supz::supz:

ciao Giacomo

[EagleMan]

Sergiu, she is AWESOME ....
You know...I'm so sorry that when I saw her she was not ready for the hunt...
Now it seem that bad days are raisng for the magpies !:supz:
Go Taiga, Go !
All the best my friend !

[The Two Scrim's]

Nice8-)

[Kukri]

Good job Sergiu8-),
I´m looking forward to reading your next posts.I got my spar 10 days ago,and just started to fly her.I need inspiration..:D
I wish you lot of great hunts with Taiga :supz:
Kukri

[GoshawkRST]

Thankyou everyone!

Taiga has finnished the molt, she is entirely new ! Her plumage is awesome !!!

Tomorrow go hawking :)

Best regards and thankyou !

Sergio..

PS - Eagleman, thankyou man, now she is ready but she still needs a little bit more time, so I have sacrificed some few days flying her on the fist only since she is a little stubborn and self-hunting. After missing a flight she will go from the tree in the other field 200 - 300 meters away, after sparrows or other small birds, some very large flights and gaining lots of speed, she lookes like a passage sparr when she do that !!!!!!!! It´s incredible, like a long range misile !!!

[JayB]

well done mate cant wait to read more about her. keep the pics comming:D:D

[GoshawkRST]

Second Magpie.
Now they are difficult to kill, since are very fast and agile !!!
And also hard to find !!!

[Lee Brindley]

Good going mate! Any ibis about at the moment?

[GoshawkRST]

Yes man ! Today she caught one ( first of the seasone ) but she fall in the wather with the ibis and escaped. I had to fish her out ! :D

[SparsTheOne]

A start of a good thread mate,bad luck with the ibis.:supz:


jase.

[Lee Brindley]

What a bird! :supz: Any idea what the ibis weigh? Are they often taken by spars over there. I would think it would take a spar with extra balls to tackle them! LOL!

[GoshawkRST]

The largest ibis she tooke last season, was on 520 grams.
They weight around 500 grams. The smalles she tooke, around 480 grams.

In Spain they are protected. Yet you can hunt them in pest control ;)

Best regards!
Sergio...

[Mark Collins]

Hi Sergio, good luck with her again mate, looking forward to your pictures and threads,cheers,mark.

[EagleMan]

Any new magpie on her list Sergiu ?
She looks stunning in her nwe plumage standing there bold and fearsome over the magpie's body !

[GoshawkRST]

She almost died !!!
Yesterday and today, I had her inside, eating tidbits.
Tomorrow I hope she will be better. If not, she will surely be dead !!!!!

What a s**t !!! Really broke my heart !!!!

[Lee Brindley]

Hey man, what happened? :confused: Hope She's OK mate. :cry:

[IceAgeDoc]

:supz:keep sending us such a beautiful hunting pics..

[GoshawkRST]

Well, the temperature sudently droped, and I had her on hunting weight to fly her in the morning, when I get to take her out, she was 215 grams and after a few bates, she fall to the ground like entering shock. She refused to eat, and she was like sleeping.
I let her in the box, inside the house, with tidbits and wather.
She finally eat, and today she was in 220 grams. Still after 2 bates, she fall from the fist, not able to stang on her feets!

Tomorrow I plan to feed her on the fist withouth any exercise and I will avoid her bating to much.

Best regards !

[EagleMan]

Damn...
How is she now ?
Take care !

[Grillu]

keep us updated mate!

[GoshawkRST]

She is good now !
Tomorrow I will test a few flights to the fist inside, to see if she still fall or not !!!

Regards !

[Robert J Penney]

Good luck sergio ,hope shes good!

[Zarafia]

If she had a sudden drop in bloodsugar would not a couple drops of honey on her tounge help short term in emergency situations? I know this can help for parrots and more recently tiny neonatal pomerainian puppies ( 90 grams).

[Dude]

Hi Sergiu! I hope ur spar is OK now and its good to see that she continue the last seasons great huntings! Quality pics again, I cant wait to see more n more :) :supz:

Take care, Dan!

[GoshawkRST]

Hi Dan !

She is good now! Her weight is up again and she bates very well, also scream a little bit and again become agressive :) All the good simptoms of a healty sparr :lol:

Best regards and thankyou!

Sergiu..

[GoshawkRST]

She´s back.

Yesterday, after 3 weeks inside, she flew well to the fist ( free ofcorse ) so I´ve decided today, go hawking.

Her weight was right, around 245 grams, and she made one spectacular flight and caught a magpie. I let you the foto of the land, she tail chase the magpie over the field to the tall trees on the background, and after a tail chase between the branches she caught the magpie right on top of that bloody pine, then fall to the ground with her prey !!!

It was awesome !

kind rigards !

Sergio...

[Mark Collins]

Hi Sergio, great little bird, look forward to reading this thread, well done,mark.

[Rex06]

i love this kind of topics, loads of photo's of 1 dead bird and 1 alive and kicking bird :supz:
i hope all goes and stays well with u and Taiga
what was here moulting wheight ?

friendly greetz peter

[GoshawkRST]

Her molting weight was around 300 - 310 grams.
Last seasone she flew in summer, around 230 grams, then in winter around 250 grams.
Her ideal hunting weight is 245 grams.
Maximum weight she flew ( and start giving problems ) was 260 grams.

Best regards!
Sergiu...

[GoshawkRST]

Ideal hunting weight today. 245 grams.
One flight, one magpie ;)

[EagleMan]

Back to business, Sergiu ! Finnaly !
She look great, I'm so happy...remember those hard to catch magpies ?
Theyr happy days are finnished!:supz:

[GoshawkRST]

That´s right Nicu !
I take the magpies alive, and use them as baggies for the kestrel ! ;)
The little falcon is really awesome killing them !!!!!!

[Dude]

Hi Sergiu!

Its good to see she is out hunting again! Keep the pics comin'! Oh and did u start a thread about the kestrel? It would be interesting how it goes!

Dan.

[EagleMan]

What about Maya's evolution Sergiu ?
I don't forget her too!
Finnaly , I m glad that those magpies (remember how the magpies tormented us ?), finnaly met their match, the little big killer, Taiga !:supz:

[Dave G]

:supz: glad all was well with the spar when its weight dropped ? and its now back out hunting great reading /dave

[GoshawkRST]

Thanyou all !

Dan, how are you man,

the kestrel is a female, but she is a nasty brave killer, it´s like a little pitbull, now I have her stooping on the lure and she is every day faster, flying around 190 - 200 grams, and right now I train her with bagged magpies.
What is curious, yesterday I´ve released one magpie inside, to see her reaction and what would she do with such a large rival as a magpie, she caught her one hand by the neck ( like always do with pigeons ! ) and the other hand by the head, what I was curious about, knowing she is a Falcon and will try to bite the prey, if she would bite the magpie several times or not. It was just awesome, she only toke 1 single bite and did not let go, just like a pitbull !!!

The sparrowhawks would take them with their long feets and not try to bite them, just imobilized them away from their own body and head, but the kestrel being a falcon, would try to bite the magpie and that is Wrong because the magpie would wait for the falcon to approach his head to gave him a nasty bite in the eye for exemple.

So I was just curious if she would find a manner to imobilized them, and from what I see, she find it just like she do with pigeons, first one heand on the neck and the other on the head, and when she got it this way, she starts biting the pigeons head.
With the magpie is different and better, since she take her by the neck and head and only give 1 single bite, not several like in the pigeon case, and in that single bite she won´t let go, only making force like a dog !
In the foto you see, she have one heand on the neck, the other on the head and biting the " nose " of the magpie, damaging an extreamely sensible area and killing an pigeon for exemple, in a matter of seconds! ( a master falconer taught me how to make the kes to destroy that particular area, by making in and cutting the nose of the pigeon/magpie when the kes take her so would learn to rapidly bite that area making maximum damage in minimum time ! ).

Wonderfull little killer would be !
I will tell you more, this weekend will send you a pm !

Best regards!

Sergio...

[GoshawkRST]

By the way, I´ve removed the magpie´s tail, not to intimidate the kes with the size in this initial training phase.
And yes, in the fotos you see dead magpies ( I´m telling this because some time ago they have removed some of the fotos I´ve posted. It´s just that some peoples forget this is a FALCONRY forum and FALCONRY is HUNTING and not pet keeping !!! ).

[Lee Brindley]

Sergio, is that Falco tinunculus, as we have in the UK? I will be very interested to see if you make a hunting bird of her, as so few people do in UK...Certainly not at magpies!

[GoshawkRST]

Yes, falco Tinnunculus.
A female, parent reared, weight out of chamber 230 grams ( small one ), firsts free flights around 180 grams and then put her weight up to 225 - 230 grams ( chamber weight !!! ) and she was performing very well to the lure ( stooping and belive me she is fast ! ) but the main reasone I have flown her so high ( without controling the weight at all ), was because I wanter her to go away and fly by her own, I even flown her on top of the hill on windy days but no succes, she will always follow me like a harris, and would always came to the lure from miles without hesitating a moment !!!
I even hurry with the training to have her more " wildy ", she flew free with some 13 - 14 days.
Now I dropped her weight again ( around 190 grams ) because she did not wanted pigeons nor magpies in those high weights.

Anyhow, she is just awesome, she really is impresive !

Best regards!
Sergio...

[GoshawkRST]

Today she caught one in the air, some 5 meters high from the ground !
It was awesome.
Also caught in first flight of the day.
Time to pass to multiple flights.

Regards!
Sergiu...

[EagleMan]

Maya over the magpie...that rock's Sergiu !
Also Taiga killing the magpies ...it were the same magpies that we hunted with Horus in October ? more specifically from the similar areas ?

[GoshawkRST]

Yes the similar areas but far longer chases.
And those magpies in October have nothing to do with this ones, now in December. These are faster and far more agile on the ground ( also clever ).

Best regards!

[GoshawkRST]

Another.....

[GoshawkRST]

Hello again !
This morning after the first magpie, I get back home and let her took a good bath, while I was eating, then tooke her again out hawking and had one of the gratest flights ever, she tail chased one magpie over some 60 - 70 meters , with the magpie going up and down all the time, and finally she caught her in the air like the other day, around 5 meters high from the ground !
Second magpie of the day !

Awesome little killer.

[Dude]

Good job mate! I've tried kestrels, but imprints and never have any serious success... It would be great to see how u enter her! Keep up the good job with the spar! Next season after I will be recovered from my sickness I will choose a spar again, if my pest controlling job will be no longer exists. Otherwise I will train some falcons again for protect the airport or the grapes from rooks, turdus and starlings....

take care,

Dan.

[Daave77]

Hi Sergiu,


I too look forward to hearing how you get on with the Kestrel, I never managed more than insects with a male I used to fly. I'm curious though..as so few people have sucess with them as hunters, why do you not try her on smaller birds rather than Magpies and Pigeons (albeit bagged ones)??



daave77

[GoshawkRST]

Dan, I hope you get back to sparrowhawks man, they are the gratest !
Dave, I don´t want to fly her on small birds. My intention was to train her to wait on well and stoop to pigeons and magpies. Yet she don´t fly very high and alwais looking for a perch.

Anyhow, it´s just the beggining, hope to have her up ther soon.

As for stooping to the lure, she is wonderful and FAST !!!

Best regards!

Sergiu..

[GoshawkRST]

SOS .... Sparrowhawk Under Attack !!! Sir, we need reinforcements !!!
The bloody magpies outnumber us 6 to 1 !!!
:lol:

[TimDog80]

top stuff sergiu:supz:

[EagleMan]

Love to see the magpies falling....
Sergiu, it's like those magpies feel that their days are numbered and as a result, the magpyes try to avoid the innevitable..
but no way...Bring Taiga there , until she finnish off all of them
Remember how the magpies torment us in Octomber?
I hope it's the same magpies...too good !

[Robert J Penney]

SOS .... Sparrowhawk Under Attack !!! Sir, we need reinforcements !!!
The bloody magpies outnumber us 6 to 1 !!!
:lol:

Absolute QUALITY!!!!!!!!!!!!:supz::supz::supz:

[GoshawkRST]

The best thing, she had the magpie caught both hands by the head, and she made some movements like atacking the other magpies, so she could intimidate them not to get close!
It was awesome to see, magpie imobilized on the ground and intimidating the other ones coming close !

Tomorrow hawking again !

[GoshawkRST]

Today we get to a falconers meet, we flown there the female Aplomado and Taiga, on partridges.
There where harris hawks, falcons, hibrids, but the fastest of all was the Aplomado and the Spar.
Taiga made a tail chase over 300 meters away, and was damn fast with a little wind from the back, one of the fastest flights ever had with her, and the partridge get to cover and then looke for her again and made a second flight with Taiga, another 300 meters away until the partridge get to another cover and escaped, and when Taiga get there she tail chase a wooden pigeon then sudently let him go and made a vertical stoop between the bushes !

It was very far, and what I´ve seen next I´ll never forget because it was the scarryest thing ever, right in the spot where Taiga made the stoop and dissapeared between the bushes, a large Common Buzzard came out of nowhere, some 20 meters high from the ground, and made a vertical stoop and fall down over the sparr ( or at last in the same spot where Taiga dissapeared ! ) and then I could see nothing since Taiga did not apeared ( she stood on the ground ), nor the common buzzard so I get crazy, let the bag and telemetry on the ground and start running like hell to that spot, screaming all the time!

On the way there, could not see the sparr flying, nor the common buzzard, so I was expected to encounter the bloody buzzard eating my sparr, but as I get there I´ve seen Taiga flying very close to the ground between the bushes, playing with the common buzzard, she was faster and escaped I could not belive I see her alive and flying, and rapidly she came and land on my feets as the buzzard get away !

Taiga on the fist, and get back to the group of falconers waching all the scene from the distance, with the help of the binoculars !

It was a damn fast flight a total of around 600 meters chase !!!

Again she demonstrate me I don´t need any other bird of prey, since she can give me the best flights one can achive in falconry and also can get a bag full of quarry.
But I also have to admit, Aplomado falcons are incredible, next year I´ll fly one aplomado withouth a doubth !!!

As for the common kestrel, she made today one sesion of stoops to the lure in the morning, around 60 fast stoops ( 10 minutes session ) and in the afternoon another session of 80 stoops to the lure. Now she is really fast !!! Still she don´t get high there !!!

Best regards !
Sergiu...

[EagleMan]

She make your hart stop for a little, isn't she?:heart:
Anyway both of you were lucky, despite the fact that I doubt about any common buzzard beung able to catch an sparrow hawk.

[EagleMan]

Anyway, Sergiu thake care with the crows...
Nobody wants Taiga in the situation of this unlucky accipiter !

[GoshawkRST]

Hello Nicu !

Common buzzards do kill trained sparrowhawks.
As for other raptors trained in falconry like for exemple not 1 week ago, a friend´s huge female harris hawk caught a wild female sparrowhawk ( she was 270 grams ! ) .
Being fast does not always save you.
Besides, I am sure when my sparr would cach something, she would not release, no mather if a common buzzard or an golden eagle approach. Last year happen this with a magpie and 2 barking dogs that could kill the sparr in a moment, yet she did not realeased the magpie and those 2 dogs did not grab her, just keep barking by her side.

Speed is not everything. That´s how some eagles around here kill trained peregrines or other falcons. Take them by surprise or more commonly know, raptors trained that are not aware of the danger and not try to fly away. They just sit and wait for the eagle, or try to fly away slowly.

As for crows, in the foto you´ve posted, seems to me like a male sparr fighting with a small crow ( monedula ? ) over teritory. That´s a very common sight around here, it happens with monedulas, seagullas, magpies, jays, but they don´t kill the sparr. Just chase him away.

Best regards!

[EagleMan]

Hey my friend !
I'm amazed...I mean, I would never imagine that an common buzzard can kill even an trained sparrowhawk...I mean, an sparrowhawk is still an sparrowhawk, it still has an incredible agility an can go into bush cover in case any raptor try to hunt it...

But I don't deny it...I'm thinking about the differences between an wild raptor and a house raptor and sincerely, I thing the trained raptor is disadvantaged.

You see, at first, I was thinking at buzzard and the sparrpwhawk being both wild birds...in this situation I have no info about any bzzard that killed an sparrowhawk.
The incidend with the dogs that you mentioned, make me worry for real.
She was lucky, if that dogs were to be terriers, or worst if there was a cat instead of dogs...I don't wanna thin about the outcome....

The best for you and all your hunters too, my friend !
Nicu

[GoshawkRST]

Nicu,

even trained, no common buzzard can catch a sparr if we talk about speed and agility.
The spar is still a spar, but the problem is that almost every spar flown in falconry is imprinted and they don´t seem to be afraid of large birds, and in my situation for exemple, if a common buzzard will go for her, she will fly slowly not like hunting or when she get scarred of someting and fly away.
And if she catch something, she would not let go, and that would make her an free meal for any raptor.

As for fitness, an wild raptor would always be in superior condition that a trained one.
To se a wild huge female goshawk, flying down and catching in the air a wood pigeon , then to compare her with the trained one flying 200 meters after a rabbit or hare.... well... yo get the point ;)

Best regards !

Sergio..

[Berkut]

Nicu,

even trained, no common buzzard can catch a sparr if we talk about speed and agility.
The spar is still a spar, but the problem is that almost every spar flown in falconry is imprinted and they don´t seem to be afraid of large birds, and in my situation for exemple, if a common buzzard will go for her, she will fly slowly not like hunting or when she get scarred of someting and fly away.
And if she catch something, she would not let go, and that would make her an free meal for any raptor.

As for fitness, an wild raptor would always be in superior condition that a trained one.
To se a wild huge female goshawk, flying down and catching in the air a wood pigeon , then to compare her with the trained one flying 200 meters after a rabbit or hare.... well... yo get the point ;)

Best regards !

Sergio..


Very good post Sergio.

[GoshawkRST]

In the foto you´ve posted, that spar make the tipical manouver turning upside down, and showing the talons to the crow, to intimidate her. You can see the head of the spar looking down, to center the body after the manouver.
And he did intimidate the crow, you can also see the crow have the head far from the spar, only trying to touch or intimidate with her talons ;)

It´s a tipical sight around here, and if the fotografer telled you that crow killed the spar , it is a lie ! ;)

Best regards!

Sergiu..

[GoshawkRST]

Thankyou Berkut !

[GoshawkRST]

Don´t run from me...
Another one today ;)

[TimDog80]

good man sergiu:supz:.....how have you found her starting weight this season compared to the end of last season??

regards
tim:D

[GoshawkRST]

Hello Tim !

Last seasone we´ve started around 230 grams at the beggining, and then at the end she was around 245 - 250 grams.
This seasone, I´ve started around 240 grams and again, her hunting weight is from 240 to 250 grams.

Superior weights... problems ;)

Thankyou and best regards !

[GoshawkRST]

Today, a HUGE magpie !!! The largest of the seasone !!!
Caught some 2 - 3 meters high from the ground.
Once on the ground, Taiga rapidly tooke her by the head !

Get back home to eat now, and in 2 hours we get back to the field for another magpie, and also with the other " weapon "... the female Aplomado Falcon !!!
We´ll see Taiga and the Aplomado vs. Magpies !!! :D

[Dude]

It would be great to hear hows the aplomado goes! Cgrats for the magpie, good job mate! Oh, hows ur kestrel goin'?

Cheers, Dan.

[GoshawkRST]

Hello Dan !!!

The Kestrel is doing grate but still don´t climb !
Now I´ll start with bagged quails to get her going up there ! yesterday we where amazed since she stooped at a quail and hit her right in the head like a large falcon, on the first stoop she open the head of the quail in a single hit !!! It was incredible never seen this before on kestrels !!! I belive she start to stoop and hit, because I gave her stoops to the lure, every day around 70 - 80 stoops.
But still, she don´t climb, the stoop was made from around 4 meters high, and a tail chase and just hit the quail almost on the ground and open the head !

The Aplomado flew well today, but not like the other day on partidges. The other day, she flew down 2 partidges and get one in the bag and the other escaped in the bushes and never seen her again, but she flew them down she is very very fast bird on partidges, pigeons and the lure....

Today on magpies, she was ... well, not that good. She made 4 flights with no succes.
She don´t enter very well on magpies, we have to let her some bagged magpies since she go slow and not catch any !!!

As for Taiga this afternoon.... 1 flight - 1 magpie ;)

These are the results:
Taiga: 1 flight - 1 magpie. ( counting the one in the morning, there would be 2 flights - 2 magpies ).
Aplomado: 4 flights - 0 magpies.

Fotos of the second magpie of the day ! Also caught her some 2 meters high from the ground.

Kind regards !!!
Sergio...

[GoshawkRST]

Also some photos of the female Aplomado!
We will get her good going on magpies soon ;) Tomorrow she would be flying in an inferior weight ( some 5 grams less ) and also on a bagged magpie ;)

But on partidges, she is the fastest bird i´ve ever seen, flying from the fist. She fly down partidges, and also pigeons ! We´ve stoop with the pigeons because she caught one flying him down, some 3 km away on the roof of a building and eat there and sleept outside that night, so the next morning get her down to the lure and never release her to pigeons again !

Now, partidges, magpies, ibis, ducks, feasents etc... but No pigeons !!!

She is FAST like a large Merlin or Sparr, we compared this aplomado and Taiga on partidges and after 50 meters of chase, the Aplomado es Faster that the sparr and can maintein that speed over very large distances !
Taiga made the flight on partidge, some 300 meters chase but after the first 150 meters ( half the way ) she start slowing down and not beating but flying like a harris looking where the partidge land to catch her on the ground.
The Aplomado made the 300 meters withouth stop beating the wings, and she gained more speed that the Sparr, and after 300 meters she was ready for a second 300 meters chase where she caught the partidge in the air flying her down !

Incredible falcon with the caracter of a harris !!!!!

Kind regards and happy Xmas !!

Sergiu...

[Florin Neda]

VERY NICE:supz:

[Zego]

Top birds Sergiu:supz:

[Daave77]

What a fantastic looking bird Sergiu, keep us posted with all 3 birds and best of continued luck to you.

[Lee Brindley]

Fantastic thread, Sergiu! That Aplomado is just beautifull. :heart: Will you be making an attempt to catch some more ibis this season?

[EagleMan]

A new glove, Sergiu ?;-)

Taiga look top beautifull, like an miniature goshawk !

[GoshawkRST]

Thankyou all !!!

Yes, we try to find Ibis birds but there are only out in the field when there are peoples around working on the field !!!
Today we get to another side of an industrial area, with Taiga and the Aplomado to looke for magpies, there I´ve seen from the car some Ibis birds the other day.
So today I will get there to see if there are any !!!

Yes Nicu, a new glow for the spar, more practical :)

As for this morning´s hawking, nothing, only the feathers of a wild red partidge !!!
She escaped in the bushes !!

We´ll see later !!!

Kind regards !
Sergiu...

[GoshawkRST]

Sparviter, she is wonderfull bird !
Have a look at this fotos !!!

http://www.cetreria.com/foro/download.php?id=47931&mode=view

http://www.cetreria.com/foro/download.php?id=47930&mode=view

[Lee Brindley]

Sparviter, she is wonderfull bird !
Have a look at this fotos !!!

http://www.cetreria.com/foro/download.php?id=47931&mode=view

http://www.cetreria.com/foro/download.php?id=47930&mode=view

Stunning, mate. Thanks! :supz:

[Sandeep]

:supz:Hi Sergio

Awesome thread, great posts and par excellence pics. Keep writing and send pics.... No one's complaining...

[GoshawkRST]

Thankyou !

Today, Taiga flew again.
On red partidges, she caught one but she could not retain her until my arrival, the partidge get her to the bushes and I found Taiga with feathers of the prey.
Then, she caught a dove some 2 meters high from the ground in the air, and while falling to the ground, the dove escaped liveing feathers behind, like the partidge.....

No luck...

Then in the afternoon, she caught 2 magpies like yesterday !!!
She just demonstrate us that is a natural born magpie killer ! :D

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The aplomado did not loose weight, only 3 grams she did not even bate to the spar while eating from the last magpie on the ground !!!
She made some chases to magpies but Slow !!!
She made a chase on the bagged magpie... Slow !!! ( she escaped ! )
And then, on the lure, she made some 30 stoops... FAST , but VERY FAST !!!! It was incredible to watch !!!
She needs to loose some weight, and some more magpies as baggies!!!
It´s a little bit Slow Learning, comparing to sparrs :D

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As for the kestrel, today stoops to the lure, around 70, I even made a short video of her stooping, it´s also fast bird !!!
Right now I will try to put the video somewhere, youtube or google... they I´ll post the link here !

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Best Regards !
Sergiu...

[GoshawkRST]

And of corse, the second of the day !

Kind Regards !!!
Sergiu...

[Alf]

NICE GOING AGAIN MATE! Alf.

[GoshawkRST]

Here is the video of the kestrel stooping :)

http://video.google.es/videoplay?docid=-1898134382302039744&hl=es

[EagleMan]

Wow Sergiu...how I miss that particular house, and those wonderful days...
Maya is more and more daring, she stoop like a big sized falcon....
Good work...Big Passion, Great Results...
I'm sure about that !

[Daave77]

Shame she keeps pitching in the tree but she seems to come straight out again, do you think thats a fitness or habit thing? Lovely to see her fly though.

daave77

[GoshawkRST]

Thankyou Nicu !

Daave, yes she stops for some instances in that small tree, it´s not about fitness but it´s a bad habit !!!
One day I get a little angry about that, and "force" her to keep stooping to the lure until she loose interest, and she made around 40 stoops then caught the lure by my mistake, so she could make more and that afternoon I get her going again and made another 50 stoops !

From that day , she make around 80 stoops in the morning and another 80 in the afternoon, but I am sure today she will make 100 stoops ! She is fast!

As for fitness, what impress me, is that she is a small bird, Parent Reared out from the chamber in 230 grams ( fat ! ) and now stooping and flying in 225 - 230 grams ( the molt weight ! ), she eats a lot and I don´t control her weight for weeks now !!!
But as I keep stooping her to the lure, I see her weight increase little by little ( building more muscles ! ). Soon she will fly Almost like a wild kestrel !!!

And also, stooping to the lure, she learned to hit the prey like a large falcon, the last 2 bagge quails where brought down to the ground in 1 single hit, first one in the head and the second in the back!
The one hit in the head was incredible, we stood there and not belive it, the quail fall with the open head, it was very bloody to see....
And the second, she open the back and abdomen in a single hit.

With pigeons is different since she cach them from the neck and bite the head, in 1 minute she can killed the largest of all the pigeons.

Of corse, i am talking about BAGGED quarry for the moment, the pigeons withouth some primary to fly slow, but the quails are perfect.

Best regards !
Sergiu...

[EagleMan]

Sergiu, are we talking about the 2008 Leon Falconry Fair Altaneria Section Winner ? I mean Maya !:supz:
I have no doubt about the 2008 October Winner !

[GoshawkRST]

:lol: :lol: :lol:

I wish !!!

Well, today Taiga killed another 2 magpies ! She just don´t stop !
Here the fotos of the first one...

[GoshawkRST]

And the second of today !

[GoshawkRST]

Another one today!
Don´t know why the fotos are so tiny...

[Lee Brindley]

Stick it to 'um Taiga! :rock:

Top thread Sergio. :supz:

[EagleMan]

Sergiu, if you will mantain this rythm, you will remain without any magpie in the area !:supz:

[GoshawkRST]

And another one today.
Just one, we´ll see tpmorrow if she kill some more.
Now magpies start to be very dificult to find and fly !
She made some 7 flights over the day, but only 1 caught !!! Magpies are now far in the field and she have to use the land to get close and catch them ! Amazing how she´s flying.

Some fotos and best regards !

Sergiu...

[GoshawkRST]

Today we had a really bloody day :lol:
Taiga caught 2 magpies and 1 ibis bird ( arouns 350 grams " clean " with no intestins etc... ).

Fotos of the first and the second magpie of the day...

[GoshawkRST]

And the ibis bird...

[EagleMan]

Top Sparrowhawking, Sergiu !
How was the ibis hunt ? more detils, if you can !
Here I saw homdreds of preys, Can't stop thinking about you and Taiga hunting here, in the snow !:supz:

[GoshawkRST]

Hi Nicu!

The ibis was caught in a low flight, the spar flew very close to the ground and in the last moments the ibis flew off and the spar toke it on the rise, then fall to the ground and caught it well by the head !

Best regards and Happy New Year !

[GoshawkRST]

Today, the last day of 2007 she got another 2 magpies !!!
It was awesome, one of them caught in the air around 3 meters high after a tail chase, and the other one in a pine tree and then fall to the ground beneath the pine !

Best regards and happy new year !!!!!!!!!!!

[GoshawkRST]

And some fotos of the second magpie of the day !

As for the Aplomado falcon, she already killed the first bagged magpie some 2 days ago, and today she missed one magpie in the field but she was very very close to cach it, what impresed me the most was her flight beating wings like a spar, she was very fast and lookes just like a huge swallow !

Then at the end we released an bagged magpie for her, with the box ofcorse not at hand, some 50 meters away in an open field with some bushes, and she made a long flight around 100 meters and caught the magpie in a stoop on the ground between bushes !

Best regards !

[Jastreb]

Great Austringer, Great Hawk!!!!!

Cheers Viktor

[GoshawkRST]

Thankyou Viktor !

Today another one :)

best regards !
Sergiu...

[TimDog80]

great thread once again sergiu:supz:

regards
tim:D

[The Two Scrim's]

Great Read, Amazing bird, class pictures:lol::D

[GoshawkRST]

Thankyou !

Here´s today hawking results. 2 magpies and 1 ibis again !

Fotos of the first magpie...

[GoshawkRST]

Fotos of the ibis...

[GoshawkRST]

And the third head of the day, another magpie...

Best regards!

[Daave77]

Excellent!


Hows your Kestrel getting on Sergiu?

[GoshawkRST]

Hello Daave !

The kes ok now, some 80 stoops to the lure in the morning and afternoon and is flying very strong.

Today get her out in the open on a windy day and she get around 10 meters pich and use a bagged quail to reward her.
Some fotos and best regards!

Sergiu...

[GoshawkRST]

Taiga is a magpie killer !!!

Today she make me realise I would never find any other bird, better for the job that a female spar ! It was a grate day hawking magpies, and she is a Master of those flights now, and in 3 flights she put 3 magpies in the bag ! And I am not talking of short flights slipping her to magpies feeding 10 feets of the car.

In the firs flight in some open fields with some tall trees and another aislated trees in the field, she flown on 3 magpies hidden in an small tree and she chased between the branches and finaly the magpie decide to go for larger trees leabing the small tree and flying some 50 meters over some larger trees over an open field with Taiga behind, and she get to the trees and escaped, and Taiga landed on the very top of one tal tree, and when I get there to call her to the fist, that magpie start climbing behind another tree and Taiga saw her from the top and start climbing after the magpie, they where at least 15 meters high from the ground and climbing, and the magpie then gone some 50 meters more to some large bushes and Taiga flew not very fast beating wings, but more like a buzzard in the wind she used the termals and chased the magpie slow like observing her over large distance and then sudently she close her wings and start beating like half the wing falling into a deadly stoop right in the middle of those bushes and I was thinking she fail the magpie and again I´ve seen myself calling her to the fist, she was far and as I slowly get there I could hear the magpie voice but not that strong, and I´ve realise she got her and I start running like a crazy man over the field to find my self in the knees beneth the bushes, finding Taiga both hand on the head of the magpie that was not even been able to open her beek and screem !!!!

I could not belive it and the other sparrowhawker friend when saw me in the distance, between the bushes with Taiga and the magpie, had no words to describe it !!! ( he flew goshawks on magpies, a female aplomado that tooke a lot of magpies before dying and now a female spar ).

Here are some fotos of this firs magpie of the day... Incredible flight !

[GoshawkRST]

In the second, the magpie feed on the ground between small bushes and Taiga used another tehnique, when bolt from the fist, she let herself to the ground and flew very close to the ground like a shadow between the bushes and the magpie could not see her and she get close and perfectly catch her.
A very natural flight, a perfect flight! She used landscape in her advantage, minimum effort and maximum results .

[Berkut]

Excellent stuff Sergui.There is something special and addictive about flying a spar at magpies.

All the best for the rest of the season. I look forward to the future posts and photos.

Neil.

[GoshawkRST]

And the third magpie another tehnique different to the others.
In an compleatly open ground, I get rapidly close to the magpies and slip her from the fist, and she entered full speed not using any cover, and she get very fast to the magpies then the magpie made a stoop to the ground and Taiga made an high pich like a falcon some 10 meters high and then turn back in a deadly stoop and caught the magpie !!!

Today she killed 3 magpies, in 3 flights in compleatly different enviroments and using 3 different tehniques !!! An 100% succes rate !!!

[GoshawkRST]

Exelent Reply Neil !

There is something on those sparrs and magpies :)

Thankyou, likewise all the best !

Sergiu...

[Joey]

top thread top hunting to mate with a top hawk keep it up loving the pics too :supz::supz:




joey

[GoshawkRST]

Cheers m8 !

kind regards !

[EagleMan]

Sergiu, did you think to fly her at those pigeons that we have seen in Octomber near the werehouses ?
Probably , Taiga will make some terrrible flights :supz:

[GoshawkRST]

Nicu, I prefer magpies ;)

Best regards !

Sergiu..

[EagleMan]

No doubt about that , Sergiu, I was just thinking that you might want to fly Taiga at pigeons for a different kind of flight,
Maybe it will be good for her technyques..I mean between 3 or 4 days of flyght at magpies, one flight against pigeons might test her in a different way.
I just presume !

[GoshawkRST]

Well, between magpie and magpie, she also fly on wood pigeons and doves.
Almost 2 seasones so far, and she only tooke feathers, no dove killed, no wood pigeon killed.
Last year she caught some urban pigeons, but the doves and the wood pigeons are difficult.

Kind regards !


Sergiu...

[EagleMan]

Sergiu, could be , in some aspects of course , the wood pigeon a more demanding and diffficult prey than the magpie ?
I mean the terrain? the trees ?
Regards !

[Berkut]

Sergiu, could be , in some aspects of course , the wood pigeon a more demanding and diffficult prey than the magpie ?
I mean the terrain? the trees ?
Regards !

My sparrowhawk has bound to many woodpigeons but to date has never held one as the feathers separate from the body too easily and she ends up with talons full of feathers. As long as they are taken in the first 50 metres or so ,the initial bind is not that much more difficult, but after that the woodpigeon seems to pull away. Overall I would say you are right to say the woodpigeon is more difficult.

[GoshawkRST]

Hello again !

Today another ibis!

A short video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K_s9v2teYoI

And some photos.
How can I put larger fotos on the site? When I resize them under 97 kb, the fotos are so small like this ones.... :(

Regards !

[GoshawkRST]

Well, today she caught another 3 magpies !
Don´t know how to resize the fotos under 97 kb, they get very small !!!
Any idea ?

[Alf]

Load them first to photobucket I think they automatically resize then for you. Alf.

Well, today she caught another 3 magpies !
Don´t know how to resize the fotos under 97 kb, they get very small !!!
Any idea ?

[GoshawkRST]

Thankyou Alf!

Here is the other 3 magpies caught yesterday !
Firs one...

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[GoshawkRST]

Second magpie of the day...

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http://i250.photobucket.com/albums/gg243/goshawkrst/DSC07266.jpg

[GoshawkRST]

And the third.

Kind regards !

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http://i250.photobucket.com/albums/gg243/goshawkrst/Imagen010.jpg

[EagleMan]

Top falconry, as I said before !
What's Taiga's personal dayly record? 3 magpyes in one day, or I might be wrong ?
Keep her working mate !:supz:

[Roberto Carlos]

tiberius:
is amazing your job
great pics

congratulations

[GoshawkRST]

Thankyou all.
Roberto Carlos, good to see you around here !!!

Nicu, that personal record she can easly beat whenever she wants, if magpies where not that hard to find !!!
So far her tail is perfect. No imping needed.
Some 31 magpies and 3 ibis.

This is today´s magpie, in a spectacular flight around 50 meters, then get in a tree with Taiga in her tail, and from the other side of the tree I could see Taiga " carryng " the screamming magpie to the ground where she caught her by the head!

Fotos.....

http://i250.photobucket.com/albums/gg243/goshawkrst/DSC07285.jpg

http://i250.photobucket.com/albums/gg243/goshawkrst/DSC07280.jpg

http://i250.photobucket.com/albums/gg243/goshawkrst/DSC07279.jpg

[Berkut]

Excellent as usual Sergui,

ATB,
Neil

[GoshawkRST]

Thankyou Neil !

So far we got: 31 magpies and 3 ibis.

Best regards !

[Berkut]

Thankyou Neil !

So far we got: 31 magpies and 3 ibis.

Best regards !

Sergui,
I am going to take my spar out and fly her soon.Magpies everywhere.She ignored magpies at first and then really switched on to them. Here she is with her first double and a single I liked.

ATB,
Neil

[Dude]

Thankyou Neil !

So far we got: 31 magpies and 3 ibis.

Best regards !

Cgrats mate! Its a very good number, u done a good job! Pure falconry!

[GoshawkRST]

Thankyou Dan !
The seasone is not over yet, so we´ll keep on hawking ;)

Neil, good fotos !!! Hope you start a diary or post more fotos with the spar and the magpies !
I am sure she will be a magpie killer !!!

Best regards !!
Sergiu...

[Alf]

Neil is that broken tail feather caused with this kill? I can just see it sticking out!
Great photos mate. Alf.


Sergui,
I am going to take my spar out and fly her soon.Magpies everywhere.She ignored magpies at first and then really switched on to them. Here she is with her first double and a single I liked.

ATB,
Neil

[Berkut]

Neil is that broken tail feather caused with this kill? I can just see it sticking out!
Great photos mate. Alf.

Yes it was Alf. She needs imped before I start flying her again.

[BillyPacey]

great sport, what weight does she fly at .love the photos.

[Berkut]

great sport, what weight does she fly at .love the photos.

Mine flies at 8.1 oz.

Neil

[GoshawkRST]

I have no idea of OZ´s, but mine flies from 240 grams to 250 grams.

Best regards !
Sergiu...

[GoshawkRST]

Today another good day hawking !
She caught 3 magpies more, out of 6 flights.
So we get to 34 magpies and 3 ibis.

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http://i250.photobucket.com/albums/gg243/goshawkrst/DSC07297.jpg

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[Alf]

She looks in top condition superb job. Alf.

[GoshawkRST]

Very bad news today, regarding spars...
I don´t know if you peoples remember that other pair of spars I get and imprinted in an enclosed aviary ? Well, today I have encounter the female eating a quail in the nest, and the mail dead and plucked by the female !!! :(

Regarding Taiga, she did a very good job today catching 2 more magpies in 2 flights, she is a real master now and one of the flights was in a very dificult terrain and was also long catching the magpie some 10 meters high in the air !!!

First of the day...


http://i250.photobucket.com/albums/gg243/goshawkrst/DSC07309.jpg

[GoshawkRST]

This is the second of the day!

Best regards !

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[Alf]

Sorry to hear about your musket. Did you never think of separating them until they came into breeding condition? Alf.

[GoshawkRST]

No Alf, I did the same thing a friend did, breeding them togheter in the chamber. He did have luck breeding with his pairs, I did´t...
Well, life sucks sometime....

Best regards !
Sergiu...

[Daave77]

Sorry to hear that Sergiu.


Hows your Kessie getting on??

daave77

[Alf]

Sergiu I must confesses I had a young pair together for two years without segregation before I parted with them.
Luck of the draw mate! Alf.




No Alf, I did the same thing a friend did, breeding them togheter in the chamber. He did have luck breeding with his pairs, I did´t...
Well, life sucks sometime....

Best regards !
Sergiu...

[GoshawkRST]

Thankyou Alf.

Dave, the kes is good but still not going very high, some 10 meters but now she go for the bagged magpies far better withouth hesitation ( not like before ) so I now work on getting her more pich !!!

Best regards !

Sergiu...

[Daave77]

Thats no mean feat Sergiu - not many Kestrels I know will attempt even a bagged Magpie if they were given one (not that they would be as its obviously illegal over here) - how does she cope with them on the ground, I would imagine that would be quite a struggle??

daave77

[GoshawkRST]

Yes it is Dave !

Here I let you 2 fotos of her with large baggies.
Now she finaly fly the bagged magpies like they would be sparrows ( withouth hesitation ).

The other day I was stooping her to the lure and she landed on a cable, and a wood pigeon came to her and landed by her side some 1 meter from her !
She then start stooping to the lure and sometimes she gone very fast in the direction of the pigeon, and he did not even moved !!!

I think lots of birds like the ibis, the pigeon, magpie etc... don´t see the kestrel as a natural predator and don´t feer them. So I guess the main key to hunt with common kestrels is this, to train him to go for the kill, witouth hesitation !

If my waiting on attempt will fail, I will fly her from the fist directly at these birds.

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[Alf]

I am all ears mate! I really look forward to her progression. Alf. .

[Gecko]

Great thread and some fanstatic photo's, keep um coming. Just out of interest what was your game count last season with Taiga?? You really have a cracking bird there, good luck with the rest of the seaon.

[GoshawkRST]

Last year I had some trouble here with lots of work around the house and so on, and I did not flown her all the seasone.

She caught some 29 heads.
- 17 magpies...
- 7 - 8 ibis if I well remember...
- 1 woodpecker ( the green large one ).
- 1 pigeon..
- some small birds...

Best regards!

[The Two Scrim's]

Theres no spotting her, amazing thread:cool: Wish i was still out there doing it:-|

[Dude]

sorry to hear about ur musket m8!

[GoshawkRST]

Well, that´s it I won´t try to buy another musket and put him togheter with this female, I don´t trust her anylonger.... :(

As for the kestrel, today it was perfect since she was hovering over my head some 5 meters high and I´ve released an huge magpie with all the tail ( to looke bigger ) and the kes stoop her and caught her by the head in the first stoop and on the ground she turn the magpie with the feets down ( so the magpie could not grab her ), and both hands on the neck and biting the head !

Very brave today.
Now I´ll try make her go every day higher... :)

Best regards !

[Alf]

Things will be different when your female spar starts her cycle.
I know a friend whose female gos killed 2 males she went on to produce young.
If you really want to breed from your spars just segregate them in separate compartments like you would goshawks until they both come into condition. Alf.

[Daave77]

Well, that´s it I won´t try to buy another musket and put him togheter with this female, I don´t trust her anylonger.... :(

As for the kestrel, today it was perfect since she was hovering over my head some 5 meters high and I´ve released an huge magpie with all the tail ( to looke bigger ) and the kes stoop her and caught her by the head in the first stoop and on the ground she turn the magpie with the feets down ( so the magpie could not grab her ), and both hands on the neck and biting the head !

Very brave today.
Now I´ll try make her go every day higher... :)

Best regards !

Excellent stuff, do you think you're far away from trying her on some local birds Sergiu or do you think she only opt for the easier baggies??

You should definately start a thread for the Kessie on its own - not many like her and I look forward (as do many others) for updates and pictures!!!

[GoshawkRST]

Ok Dave, I´ll make another post for her.

As for wild hunting I think she would go but I don´t whant that yet, I want to fly her waiting on and I must center her a little bit with baggies, to make her take a good pich etc...

But some weeks ago, I was on an open field with some small bushes, and as I´we tooke the hood of, she stare in the distance and tooke off on a low flight beating wings all the way, I remember she flew very fast and straith line while a falconer friend was asking me " where is she going ??? did you put the transmitter ??? " ...
It was not usual for her to do this then we´ve seen some 100 meters away in a field a small bird ( don´t know the english name, it was a Phoenicurus ochruros ) and she enter very fast and then tail chase him with lots of aerial manouvers like a sparrowhawk then she almost got hit when the small bird get to the cover leaving the kestrel hovering a little bit then came back !!!

It was just incredible and I am sure if I see magpies in the fields, far away, she will go for them. And the best thing.... magpies will not see her as a predator, but the bad side they will be far from me and would not be only a magpie but more....

Best regards !
Sergiu...

[GoshawkRST]

Another Magpie today.

Best regards!

http://i250.photobucket.com/albums/gg243/goshawkrst/DSC07325.jpg

[Alf]

Love that photo!:supz: Alf.


Another Magpie today.

Best regards!

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[Andrew Connor]

Sergui why dont you start a thread about your kestrel because im sure we al want to ear how she is getting on, i havent heard of a kestrel being used for hunting purposes in falconry before mate
all the best
PADDY F

[Dude]

Sergui why dont you start a thread about your kestrel because im sure we al want to ear how she is getting on, i havent heard of a kestrel being used for hunting purposes in falconry before mate
all the best
PADDY F

It would be great and I also love to see another thread about the aplomado too!

[GoshawkRST]

Here is the link of the thread !

http://www.falconryforum.co.uk/showthread.php?p=754284#post754284

As for the female aplomado, last weekend when we flown her, she made a very good chase on a magpie in an really enlosed area ( a forest also with lots of bushes ).
What amused me the most, is that Taiga caught one magpie in that forest and I was telling to the other falcone " you see, here an Aplomado would never kill a magpie " , and some 10 minutes later we found another slip, the same wood, and he sliped the aplomado and almost got the magpie, she did some 5 or 6 atacks and she was extreamely close to grab her in all the attempts !!!

Finaly the magpie escaped RUNNING beneath the bushes with the aplomado after but she escaped.

I was amazed what this falcons can do !!!!

[GoshawkRST]

Today, the best day of the seasone !!!
She tooke 6 birds out of 8 flights !
Weight around 243 grams.
After a very long slip on pigeons, she land on a tree some 200 meters away, and she amazed me because I could not even get down from the car, only call her and she came back, entered in the car by the window to the fist !!! From 200 meters away !!!

She tooke today, 1 small bird ( don´t know the english name ), 1 sparrow and 4 magpies !!!

This are fotos of the small bird and the sparrow ( eated in the car ).

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[GoshawkRST]

First magpie of the day...

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[Ben C]

Don't you just love the laws of Spain......................AWESOME

[GoshawkRST]

Second magpie of the day...

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[GoshawkRST]

Third magpie of the day...

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[GoshawkRST]

And finally forth magpie of the day.
And about the laws, small birds cannot be hunted, but accidentaly she can take 1 or 2 in the seasone.

On the other hand, small birds are legally killed with pesticides by the farmers :(

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[Lee Brindley]

WELL DONE TAIGA!! Nice pics Sergiu :supz:

[Jorge Sales Lisboa]

All pictures are beautiful, but the first is very , very , very beautiful.

Best Regards.

Jorge

[GoshawkRST]

Today she got another one.
And a wood pigeon´s tail ! :)

Best regards !

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[Alf]

Sergiu she looks well settled in the car one thing though how come there’s not loads of hawk **** everywhere in that motor? :yawinkle: Alf.

[EagleMan]

Today she got another one.
And a wood pigeon´s tail ! :)

Best regards !

http://i250.photobucket.com/albums/gg243/goshawkrst/DSC07377.jpg

http://i250.photobucket.com/albums/gg243/goshawkrst/DSC07379.jpg

Soon will came the pigeon too !
Keep the quality falconry, Sergiu !

[GoshawkRST]

Alf, my mother cleen up the car every weekend :lol:
Nicu, in 2 seasones now, she only killed urban pigeons. But Wood Pigeons are a different story, they are huge and they fly with the spar attached to them, then leave the tail.
Never get one to the ground !

Best regards!

[Alf]

That s what mothers are for mate!:yawinkle::heart: Alf.


Alf, my mother cleen up the car every weekend :lol:
Nicu, in 2 seasones now, she only killed urban pigeons. But Wood Pigeons are a different story, they are huge and they fly with the spar attached to them, then leave the tail.
Never get one to the ground !

Best regards!

[GoshawkRST]

:lol: :lol: :lol:

[GoshawkRST]

Weight today: 242 grams.
Flights: around 4 or 5.
Kills: 2 ( 1 magpie + 1 blackbird ).

We had fun today with some large flights on magpies with no succes they are very hard to catch now.
Then she caught one magpie by surprise flying very close to the ground.
After that, a blackbird in a tail chase, got to the cover and there she entered like a bullet and caught it inside. It was a very fast flight.

http://i250.photobucket.com/albums/gg243/goshawkrst/DSC07385.jpg

http://i250.photobucket.com/albums/gg243/goshawkrst/DSC07383.jpg

http://i250.photobucket.com/albums/gg243/goshawkrst/DSC07389.jpg

http://i250.photobucket.com/albums/gg243/goshawkrst/DSC07395.jpg

[Alf]

Congratulations on the blackbird nice one! Alf.

[GoshawkRST]

Thankyou Alf !

Today she flown in 252 grams and she tooke another 2 magpies out of 5 flights.

First one...

http://i250.photobucket.com/albums/gg243/goshawkrst/DSC07439.jpg

http://i250.photobucket.com/albums/gg243/goshawkrst/DSC07440.jpg

http://i250.photobucket.com/albums/gg243/goshawkrst/DSC07433.jpg

[GoshawkRST]

Second one and some fotos I´ve tooke around...

Best regards !

http://i250.photobucket.com/albums/gg243/goshawkrst/DSC07446.jpg

http://i250.photobucket.com/albums/gg243/goshawkrst/DSC07444.jpg

http://i250.photobucket.com/albums/gg243/goshawkrst/DSC07431.jpg

http://i250.photobucket.com/albums/gg243/goshawkrst/DSC07426.jpg

[The Two Scrim's]

8-)Nice

[GoshawkRST]

End of the season.

The results of this second season are: 51 birds:

- 1 blackbird.
- 2 small birds.
- 3 ibis.
- 45 magpies.

Now, put her down to rest and molt, as I will dream on the third season !

Best regards and happy molting ! :D

Sergiu...

[Lee Brindley]

Well done Sergiu. Another excellent thread, and looking forward to next season. I hope that Taiga has a clean and speady moult.

Best regards...

Lee. :D

[RedNoseK9]

A great thread and i await next years installment

Wez

[Alf]

Good going mate a respectable tally!
What are your plans for her during the moult it’s her second year and if you give her a nest platform she will more than likely lay eggs this year?
If she stands and you can lay your hands on some gos semen!!!! Alf.



End of the season.

The results of this second season are: 51 birds:

- 1 blackbird.
- 2 small birds.
- 3 ibis.
- 45 magpies.

Now, put her down to rest and molt, as I will dream on the third season !

Best regards and happy molting ! :D

Sergiu...

[Joey]

Good going mate a respectable tally!
What are your plans for her during the moult it’s her second year and if you give her a nest platform she will more than likely lay eggs this year?
If she stands and you can lay your hands on some gos semen!!!! Alf.
my mentor is trying for a spos spar cross gos a guy in spain had one thathe saw they were feather specialists and he had alosrts wiyth it looked like a gos with a big toe



joey

[GoshawkRST]

Hello !

She had a nest now in the chamber since I use the same chamber I had for my pair of spars ( female killed the male so I gave her away ).
She only stood for insemination 1 time this year while hawking. She was in the car, on the perch and I was speaking with her and touch her back and she stood nice !!!

We`ll see in some monts if she stay, I will looke for semene here in spain ! Gos semen of corse !!! ( since spar semen is almos imposible to encounter ).

You have just game a good idea !!!

Thankyou !

[Dude]

Hello !

She had a nest now in the chamber since I use the same chamber I had for my pair of spars ( female killed the male so I gave her away ).
She only stood for insemination 1 time this year while hawking. She was in the car, on the perch and I was speaking with her and touch her back and she stood nice !!!

We`ll see in some monts if she stay, I will looke for semene here in spain ! Gos semen of corse !!! ( since spar semen is almos imposible to encounter ).

You have just game a good idea !!!

Thankyou !

I think I can get gos semen for ya! PM for the details! I can send it with a cool method really fast ;)

[Robert J Penney]

End of the season.

The results of this second season are: 51 birds:

- 1 blackbird.
- 2 small birds.
- 3 ibis.
- 45 magpies.

Now, put her down to rest and molt, as I will dream on the third season !

Best regards and happy molting ! :D

Sergiu...

Fantastic stuff Sergiu i look forward to reading about her next season!!:supz:

[GoshawkRST]

Hello!

Here are some photos I tooke today with the girl, she start molting !
That´s very cute !

http://i250.photobucket.com/albums/gg243/goshawkrst/DSC07489.jpg

http://i250.photobucket.com/albums/gg243/goshawkrst/DSC07490.jpg

http://i250.photobucket.com/albums/gg243/goshawkrst/DSC07494.jpg

http://i250.photobucket.com/albums/gg243/goshawkrst/DSC07495.jpg

[GoshawkRST]

Two more :)

Best regards!

http://i250.photobucket.com/albums/gg243/goshawkrst/DSC07498.jpg

http://i250.photobucket.com/albums/gg243/goshawkrst/DSC07496.jpg

[Svato]

Hi Segiu, how´s going Taiga? Do you have any news? I´m looking forward for the next season :)

[Goshawk]

Just finished reading this thread...Killer bird:supz:...Nice pictures:supz:...Good stuff:supz:...Gavin