lamping

[SW3AN29]

hi alright everyone went out lamping the other night with my friend harris hawk and my lurcher and fair play is female harris done really well not really into lamping with bird of prey prefer to see the flying and he told me that he had a female European eagle owl that he used to lamp with and he told me off how good it was he said it was faster than is harris hawk in the night as anyone flew a EEO on a lamp

[Cyclone]

i aint used one but i have heard that they can be propper good for lamping with
cyclone

[TheGosHawking]

harris will rip apart an eagle-owl if numbers of catches are compared an eagle-owl is slack as can be a harris an intelligent lil thing n will adapt where e/o will not its just too thick

[Bubo]

i'm sure with the serious training the owl would be excellent at lamping but would you need a lamp with an owl? they are equipped to pinpoint their prey with out lamps (and hawks cant so there - one up for the owls :P ). would the lamp only be needed as a cue to make a slip? i have this profound urge to prove an eeo is as competent if not better at night :twisted:

[GDN]

I used to work with a guy who told me of a EEO being used for lamping that took ducks of a pond. He only went along because he found it hard to believe that a EEO would be fast enough to catch a duck.

Not very good sport though in my opinion

[GDN]

Thegoshawking

1 thing I would say about Eagle Owls is once you get them hunting they will generally go after anything that moves. I have a Turkmanian. Now i never trained it to hunt but it did catch a rabbit (admittedly the rabbit had mixy). Since then he has taken 4 or 5 more rabbits and a hedgehog. He has also chased everything else that has come to close to him or is to stupid to get out his way. Pheasant, duck (but not on a pond), crows, jackdaws, magpies, squirrels, thrushes, blackbirds and wood pigeons. He has also tried to get dogs and cats but thankfully i have always spotted them before him and i have had a hold of him. So to say they can't adapt maybe a little bit of the mark.

Before anyone gets upset about anything in the above list of things that have been chased. I have never deliberately hunted with him and he has only chased what he has seen for himself

[Bubo]

hedgehogs are something EEO's enjoy immensly. it is pretty amazing how they deal with them. what a bird you have GDN.
bubo