Little perlins first kill

[Matt]

this is my little perlin teircil finnishing off the remains of his fist kill a male black bird caught of the fist . it was a proper smash n grab job like a littel exerset hitting its mark i cant beleave how hard this bird hits cover very similar to a spar real head case . i would recomend one to any body that would like to hunt hedge row birds its point and shoot stuff.

[Hawkmaster]

Well done! Does he have interest in bigger stuff?

[Varmint]

Nice one mate!, have some fun, the pair of you.

[Afshimo]

what r pelins like? how much r they? just thinking you know...lol. Fancy doing a bit of hedge hunting, we got plenty of them round here, and open space, moutains 10 mins away! Bliss! At the monet I'm kinda bird-less. My saker is in seriosue moult now, and most of the birds at centre r ok, acept the male steppe eagle, but i doubt I'll never b able to take that home yet lol.

[Wightwings]

cracking!! we are surrounded by flat fields and hedgrows FULL of small stuff. food for thought mate thanks

[Matt]

i deffo think the perlin beats the spar
1 for his laid back attiude
2 much easyer to maintain weight and condition
3 i realy like long wings
the price of these little birds is alot more than a spar but worth it just for its all round better atitude to life . feather damage is none existant un like a spar he has never had a fit or tantrum .
he does bait at crows a long way off but i put this down to inexperiance but he shows no intrest in smaller stuff such as blue tits dunack or wrens. the only thing that he is bad for is sitting down i dont know why i trained him as i would any other falcon but mabe this is down to the enviroment he is flying in . he will wait on over low hedges but takes stand after a missed stoop or strike but he will come to a ungarneshed fist ready for the next flight.
the price of this type of bird is £550 to £650 for a male and £650 to £800 for female. its less than a barbary but more than a peregrine but i dont think you could have as much funn with eather race as they are better suited to other quarry.
perlins are a worthy bird for any falconer and i will be having more of them in the future as the breeder is going to help me with an imprint hen in the next couple of years. all the best matt

[Matt]

todays adventure.
today was a good day for loco and me we had another kill and a scrap with a wild kestrel . i dont know if you can see her but she is on the left of the pic on the roof and right is loco it might give you some idea as to the size differance . allthogh there is not much in weight differance ,taken that the perlin flys at the same weight as my last fem kestrel

[Shaun Byrne]

What did the perlin take this time mate? Where in E Mid are you based?

[Matt]

well after a wile she cleared off and he came down to the fist . so we walked to the erea where we allways find black birds and cast him off to wait on . after a kick about 2 flushed and off he went only to be out classed and not in the best of places at the point of flush i will try him from the fist next time but after a tail chase he returned and did a few passes over the same area as i walked on a sparrow went up all most in to him and snatch another one bites the dust.
as he was coming down to settle the fem kestrel apeared again and chased him a fare distance with the sparrow still in his feet . after a bit he landed on a roof and started to eat his prise with this the kestrel just drifted away again screaming all the way . this left me in a proper mess a perlin with a meal he can fly with on a 15 foot high roof

[Matt]

there was nothing i could do but hope he would come down after he had finnished his kill so thats what i did wait n wait n wait . but even before he finnished he was looking at the lure and bobing his head . anyway he finnished and came strait down did a pass at the lue and got it second time . off home and back on his block all in under 40 mins wicked .

[Matt]

im out side a town called grantham m8 not fare from the a1 on the a52.
god thats a cool pic of a cool bird int it ?

[Troy]

nice one matt good to see the wee spitfire and you are out there doing it falconer style .................

[GoneHawking]

Matt sounds like you are having some real fun, Forgive me if you have already said but what weight does he fly at?

[Matt]

his best weight has been 10 oz but i lost a fair but of controll at that but his dayly weight / hunting weight at prezant is 9 1/2 oz 91/3 oz .
im off to fly him in an hour so i hope we can ad to the bag again today
watch this space
all the best matt

[GoneHawking]

Matt did you ad to the bag yesterday, Sounds like a cracking style of flight, I am flying a Spar at the moment at Blackbirds but she had a good slip at some hen pheasants yesterday then thought (oops there a bit big!!)

Hope your good flying continues...
Mark

[Matt]

no m8 dog walkers ******d it up for me so i just did a load of passes to the lure he was at the kestrel again. i think there in love

[Sparrow Hawker]

Hi Matt,

Keep us posted how he gets on, certainly sounds your having a good time with him.

All The Best,

HH

[Matt]

ahhhhh THE BEST 2 HOUR FALCONRY SESION EVER !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

So today i thought it was high time we had a real good in some open feilds as i went out on saturday to do the same and the beagles where allready there , anyway that another story .
Back to today so we had just walked about 20 feet and up went the first little bird im not sure what it was but i think there yellow hammers i could be wrong a small tail chase and the beginnings of a ringing flight i was amazed he really was trying but after about 30 foot they broke and all went in differant directions this had the desired effect and he was soon struggling to keep on top of them .

no sooner had it started and it was over he lost um and just cruized about over my head looking realy dejected i held out some tipbit but he just glided about and settled on the spot they had risen from .oh well that was ace i told him and picked him up, at this stage i would have been happy enough at his efforts. so we settled down and started to walk on and bang up went more of the same this time only a tail chase that soon ended in the birds hitting the only cover a hedge in he went after them but still no kill again i picked him up .

I was just thinking to myself he needs to kill soon or hes gonna get bored , so through the hedge in to the next feild i took my time and really scanned about hoping for something to aim for but could only see one old crow scratching about [ remember loco has baited at them before ] so i was hoping he would show some maturity by just staying still and waiting for a better more realistic slip.

This feild was much more mature in terms of cover being wheat stubble drilled with winter rape that was very lush. i was allready thinking this is our best chance of a slip at partridge because there is a good number of wild greys on there . so as steady and as calm as i could we walked on 40 yards in up went the yellow hammers off he went with a ring of his bell the second he was flying about 6 greys bolted to our left the second they did he switched and was right amongst them, i thought he gonna get one i really could not believe my eyes hes right on um .

The flight that followed was the best i have ever seen fast agressive and really going a long way they coverd the feild in just a split second and where over the first hedge .as they rose to cover it he through up high and that was it he doted out but i could still see his quarry covering field after field then they change direction and i saw him again up up up then a stoop and nothing .

At this stage i hadnt moved at all and was still holding my breath . so i ran like a kid down the hill over to hedges to the spot i last saw him nothing **** iv lost him i was thinking so i stood still and tried to listen for bells but all i could hear was myself breathing like a race horse . after a few seconds i could hear a little sort of screaming and the sound of tinny bells, so off i went to track um down as i went over the barbed wire over the ditch and them more wire i could just see him under some old fallen but alive willows there he as with a hand full of feathers and no grey , but he was looking mean and realy running about . it must have just got out of his feet or beaten him off i will never know . but that was the best fun we have had yet and a realy good sign i think that this little bird is living up to my expectation and a lot more .

His style was realy differant very fast and allmost like he was happier to be going at bigger fast prey .
after that flight we just walked back to the path over the same fields but he made nothing of the same sort of birds he had chased before twice we sent up the y.h.s and only once did he bait and then only half harted fly them . on the way back we moved a common snipe but i try not to let him see them as i think they are out his leage this year but at there speed maybe for ever . off he went up the hill and almost out of sight i started to walk up to a high point and saw him coming so swang the lure and shouted .from the bottom of the hedge came two feild fares strait at him as he was coming in to the lure , it was not even sport it was more self defence he put out his feet and good night viena a kill at last .

i know this will win awords as the longest post ever but its one of the best days iv had if not the best falconry day ever .
soz for rambling on and on but im a proud little man tonite and so is my bird lol

all the best

matt once again sorry about the spelling and the length of post.

[Matt]

god that is big sorry :oops: :oops:
but i dont care realy jut dont read it lol :lol:

[Shaun Byrne]

Sounds like some cracking flights mate, you might just want to edit the bit about the Fieldfare though!

[Debbie]

Fabulous post Matt :D

Loco is a real star 8)

I have fairy dusted your post to make it easier on my eyes :lol: :wink:

You men get so excited you forget to breathe :lol:

Debbs

[Matt]

cheers debs its loads better now :lol:

[North East Harris Hawker]

a long post indeed matt, but worth the effort, great news there with your little mate, keep up the good work 8)

[Matt]

went out late today but had a short chase on a black bird and two amaxzing flights on common snipe and the littel tike tryed it on with a hare e kicked up 10 feet in front of us lol the name says it all
little loco
all the best matt

[Kevin Massey]

not long @ all m8y........also u do well putting the excitement into writing aswell to boot !!.

cracking........just cracking !!! well done u2

kev

[Gaz]

You men get so excited you forget to breathe

Only for two mins though :lol:
Well done Matt :mrgreen:

[Falcons7]

I've seen a few perlins fly ,jesus there something else.My mate Simon Hyam and Ryan fly them to a very high standard.Simon cought a Grouse in December with his''little ****''and their dynamit at snipe.

[Ben C]

Be careful Mat, I think you ain't allowed to hunt the yellow hammers! Or for that matter the field fares! I cold be wrong but they are a migratory species of thrush. I hope I am wrong.

[HawkMan69UK]

matt it sounds fantastic i sooo considering getting a small dynamite falcon maybe an amplomdo if anyone knows who breed them in the uk give me a shout ..... do you always fly him from the fist matt or does he wait on too????

[Saker-Clive]

Sorry to disappoint you guys but Matt hasn't been on here since January, and he doesn't have the bird anymore!!!

[Goldie]

The name Loco should have given it away :lol:

[Quiver]

what ever happened to LOCO matt been reading this old thread and wanted to know what became of him.

chris.:yawinkle:

[Jackie]

quiver dont ask very distressing for him but sure he will tell you anyway

[Quiver]

quiver dont ask very distressing for him but sure he will tell you anyway

can you not tell me then?

chris.:yawinkle:

[Matt]

unfortunatly we had some domestic troubles ( my fault!) an i had to part with him to another forum member , he died shortly after we parted . big rows with the member and i have never forgiven my self for parting ever since .


he was the best bird i have owned an i still miss him teribly .

soon i hope to be in the postion to do another littel sky worrier justice again .