Graveyards

[Sean]

Hi guys,
Was just wondering is ot possible to hunt in graveyards? would the graves get in the way, or will the birds be anle to manover round them? I seen a post before about someone saying graveyards a good place to hunt. heres some pics of a graveyard about half a mile away from me, with a few rabbits.

[Falcon]

The Isles of Scilly heliport in Penzance is boiling with rabbits, you can count at least 50 there at one time.shame it's so close to the main roads onto town! In answer to your question Sean I don't know myself, prehaps some one else will enlighten us! :lol: :wink:

[Will]

As far as I'm aware, most graveyards are owned by local councils therefore you are highly unlikely to obtain permission. Also, would you like someone leaning over your loved one's resting place to despatch a rabbit and messing up the flowers?

[OutFlying]

Sean,
YOU CANNOT HUNT ON ANY LAND WITHOUT PERMISSION, If you think it is viable to hunt in a gravard while people are visiting their loved ones graves - then you go and ask the owner of the grave yard. :oops:

Do you own a hawk at present ? how are you learning the sport, hopefully not via this forum :wink:

[Sean]

no i aint got a hawk at the moment, and i will ask for permission. but would you like rabits burrowing all round your loved ones will. tehre is a few places out in teh open in part sof the graveyard too

[Bubo]

get a barnie they love those places and can manoeuvre like no other i have seen to do.... they just cant take the big bunnies though :lol:

[OutFlying]

Sean,

If rabbit control is needed, maybe somebody going at night with a lamp and a rifle would control there numbers in a more effective fashion
without upsetting anyone. If you was attending a funeral and a harris hawk chasing a rabbit followed by a "falconer" came through the grave yard - I don't think it would go down well.

Jim.

ps Whilst you are a beginner and young, I hope you also posses common sense.

[Sean]

i was thinking about early in the morning maybe? if not maybe i could net a few for hawk food lol

[Falcon]

Like OF has said i don't think it would go down very well Sean flying in a grave yard, you can go and ask the authorities, but i doubt you will get permission.

[Ben C]

Sean I have a bad story about grave yards (everything was fine in the end as I know the church warden).......trust me mate its not worth the aggro. They LOOK so inviting, all them bunnies etc. Now ask yourself, what happens if you get a ferret stuck down a hole and you have to start digging???? That is not a pretty thought. Or you slip over a grave and knock the old moss covered head stone? or put your foot in the flowers? Or............... I could go on, but you lot can take your pick which one happened or maybe they didn't. Either way its not worth the risk.

So hand on heart I gotta agree with OF and the others on this one.................leave em all in peace mate!!

[WireHairedPointer]

I hunted on a graveyard a few years ago. a lot of difficult slips, that results in great flights and few rabbits, but it worked. you have to be very careful in dealing with the graves and the people, but I had never problems there. mostly the people told me where they have seen rabbits.

[ColdZero]

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[Ben C]

Hey has anyone seen Seans superb bit of photography? One of the graves has got FOX on it, right next to the rabbit. Sean thats very clever mate I like it. :) :) :)

[Bubo]

yeah i noticed it too mate hehee.

[Moritz]

As far as I know quite a lot german falconers hunt with their HH and goshawks on graveyards etc. I could get permission for the graveyards in my hometown very easily, as I did ferreting their.

Moritz

[HawkMan69UK]

i hunt on a grve yard buts its deditcated to planting trees so no headstones the onwner was only to pleased for me to fly over it cause the bunnies were eating the flowers i just have to use commen sense obviosley if there is a funeral but loadsss of bunnies :lol:

[Bubo]

Sean,

If rabbit control is needed, maybe somebody going at night with a lamp and a rifle would control there numbers in a more effective fashion
without upsetting anyone. If you was attending a funeral and a harris hawk chasing a rabbit followed by a "falconer" came through the grave yard - I don't think it would go down well.

Jim.

ps Whilst you are a beginner and young, I hope you also posses common sense.

i'm going to miss popular and disagree with you there OF - this is just my opinion but using rifles in a grave yard sounds a lot worse than hawking and i'm sure peeps would find out previously if funerals were on the agenda for the day before flying.

Being the bravey that i am i shudder to think about even going near a cemetary in day time let alone going lamping in one :shock: :lol:

bubs

[Kornie]

I dont think I would out of respect mate, when it comes to people and thier loved ones, things could get nasty.

Besides, there might be ghosts...

[Kornie]

I dont think I would out of respect mate, when it comes to people and thier loved ones, things could get nasty.

Besides, there might be ghosts...

[WireHairedPointer]

I never made bad experience there people at first looked a bit confused at me the dog and the gos, but after explaining what I was doing there, they were pleased that somebody kills the rabbits that eat all the flowers

[Clown666]

i wounldnt because thers people bured ther its just seem to lack respect but its up to you not me good luck anyway

[Tim Laycock]

I like to fly in graveyards.
Its the perfect place to fly a spar (With permission).
The boke of st albans stated that the sparrowhawk was to be flown by a priest and the musket was to be the charge or the holy water clerk so it is more than likley that if your local cemetry is "Established" the paths between the headstones were tread by a falconer of bygone days.
I derive a great deal of satisfaction from thinking that I am retracing his steps and achieving a degree of sport similar to what was achieved by my long dead hawking colleague.
I sometimes like to think he is smiling up at me from where he is "planted" :D

[Bubo]

:lol: :lol: that is a good one BB

[Will]

Blackbird, it's a nice romantic idea, retracing steps, but I don't think visitors would see it that way. I think, out of respect, it would probably be better for Sean to stay away. I'm sure he'll find plenty of other good spots.

[Ben C]

Nice one BB, I like that a lot.

Did you also know that a priest was not allowed to eat meat during lent. So to get around it they ate the unborn young of rabbits. YEP they ate foetus's. TRY THAT ONE FELLA :) :) :) :)

[Tim Laycock]

The mingers :vom: :lol:

[Kornie]

Let me set the scene;

your birds first kill of the year your sitting on a poor guys grave with your harris on a kill plucking fluff everywhere, a family come along to pay respects to the grave you happen to be twisting the neck of a squeeling rabbit.......can you imagine the cringe... other then that im sure they would be a nice place to hunt on.

[Tim Laycock]

A bit diffrent to hawking a cemetry with a spar.
Good point :|

[Sean]

ok guys back to the question lol, r they a good place to hutn and will the hawk be agile enough around the gravestones?

[Ben C]

**** it................I love picking my fluff in a cemetary. A squealing rabbit adds to the atmosphere.......a growing understanding of satanism and falconry should really be understood.......blood and death is a good thing folks. My god, my father hit me for these very reasons.....Britain wouldn't be great without violence

[Tim Laycock]

A spar is :D Male harris? possibly!

**** it................I love picking my fluff in a cemetary.
Ben
You are not right :rolleyes: :lol:

[Ben C]

Well BB it is a terrible shame to lie to the novices.

Sean the secret handshake in a cemetary invloves this sayin " I take thee Blackbird to be my loyal shag sack me son. However I shall throw me guts up to the bitch morgana. Up I will place me tackle for a cheese inspection of monumental proportions. Catch it truckers ya **** head, and go close to being lord glasier!!!!!"

Only then can you hunt in a graveyard ocotopus dude!

[Tim Laycock]

Ben.
What have you been drinking!
Absinthe? :rolleyes:

[Sean]

yea hwat r u on about lol?

[Ben C]

Sean....let me tell you a little story.....

Once upon a time there was a man, and this man led a upstanding and noble life as a teacher of the next generation of prime ministers and kings. Once in a while his girlfriend went shopping on the same day as him, but forgot to mention it. Sometimes she also had a good bit of news. Consequently they BOTH purchased vast quantities of the evil drug called beer. Now once a week the stars align and the planets become as one, and all these little pieces come together and this man gets wasted BY ACCIDENT.....talks pants and wakes up and HAS ABSOLUTELY NO IDEA AT ALL about what he wrote. And in all honesty frightens himself with the weird and bizarre things that sprout forth from his obviously damaged skull. So forgive me, I am off to church to cleanse my soul and ease my pain. :) :)

Gravy yards...........Just be careful. :) :) :)

[Sean]

lol i feel sorry for your fingers, you just had to say you were drunk.

[Tim Laycock]

:lol: :rolleyes:

[Kornie]

geez man, you must have been wasted.