What is the best falcon in your area?

[Hawkmaster]

And what quarry does it take :?:

[Falconry Equipment International]

Not sure of the comment here, but the reaason why I fly predominately female peregfrines is due mainly to 3 factors,accessable terrain ( flying grounds) , My confidence in my baility to train, fly & make specific species( sorry if this sounds arrogant, I don't mean it to) & quarry base, ie pheasant and very few mallard
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[WireHairedPointer]

I think the best falcon for your area and the quarry that lives there is the falcon that lives there in the wild. thousends of years of evolution adappted the species. so for europe the best falcon is the peregrine.

[OhMyGod]

I saw a hobby a little while ago. I drove down a track to the nature reserve and it was just sat on the floor preening!!! I must have got about 8 or 10 metres away before it got up, and then it only went a couple metres higher onto a bank, I nearly ran it over!! I've also seen wild peregrines on the landfill here and wild goshawks in thetford. I have seen a red kite hear also. That's about it apart from the obvious sparrowhawks and kestrels and a few owls, like little owls etc.

[GriffMJ]

The wild Pere's that I go and see at the quarry..... taking the doves and pigeons that fly over it :)

[GDN]

Has to be the peregrine.

Just watching them stoop either at something or when displaying to each other and the noise of the air over their wings when they are in a stoop is just awsome. When ever i see a wild peregrine i always think it is going to be a good day.

We can't forget the kestrel for fun. After all it is a falcon. The way they can hold themselves stationery in the air using the wind making it look almost effortless. Always a joy to watch. Watched 1 mob a buzzard once. That was fun. It was all over the buzzard and the buzzard was trying it's best to get away.

[Miguel]

Has to be the peregrine.

Just watching them stoop either at something or when displaying to each other and the noise of the air over their wings when they are in a stoop is just awesome. When ever i see a wild peregrine i always think it is going to be a good day.

You bet!! I just saw it for the first time in my life, last week and it was amazing!!A wild peregrine came from nowhere and caught a pigeon off the air so easily... It was really awesome!

We can't forget the kestrel for fun. After all it is a falcon. The way they can hold themselves stationery in the air using the wind making it look almost effortless. Always a joy to watch. Watched 1 mob a buzzard once. That was fun. It was all over the buzzard and the buzzard was trying it's best to get away.

It happened the other day to one of the sakers in our show... 2 kestrels stooping on a her, and, as you, I also saw those same kestrels stooping on a buzzard, just to make him fly off their territory!! :P

[Darren]

the kestrels hovering in the fields & the sparrow hawks that are nesting near us....love watching them catch the starlings...the scream the starling lets out when it is caught.

[Coedhirion]

The new sakret that has just arrived of course ...only quarry its taken so far is large chunks of human hand through the glove, but as its only day 2 thats par for the course :lol: :lol:
Living wild ... has to be our local Gos. super 2 watch unless it came in too close when we were flying HHs during the winter

[Afshimo]

The local spar for def. after pidgy's and stuff, scares the maggies away too. Great to watch it going, twisting through the roofs and hedges.

the local merlin is pretty cool, but I dont see him/her too often!

[GlennB]

Definately Peregrines, but also like the way that Buzzards have adapted, using updrafts etc, to 'hover' like Kestrels

[OhMyGod]

and use landfills like seagulls