Snow Goose Catch (spring hunt)

[Dan Paradis]

One of my apprentice's sent me these pics from yesterday's hunt with his male Harris. Snow geese hunt is legal in spring time over here for a high numerous population livestock. Another example of how versatile can a Harris be.

[Kitana]

Wow that's neat! I wish we had snow geese here.

[HolyWood]

well done :supz::supz:love it

[Sean D]

Great stuff Dan, whats the flight like, do they take them on the rise or off the ground

[W Jenkins]

How was this Goose taken, would like to know:o

ATB

Wullie

[Dan Paradis]

from an ATV I've been told, we sometimes get close enough to a flock for a reasonable slip chance. I personally would not hunt goose on a regular basis with anything other than a falcon or a gos...or at last a ferrug

[Onyx25]

One of my apprentice's sent me these pics from yesterday's hunt with his male Harris. Snow geese hunt is legal in spring time over here for a high numerous population livestock. Another example of how versatile can a Harris be.

If it mugged it on the floor its a real shame but if taken in flight then all credit.

[Chicquera]

So you're allowed to kill birds during their breeding season ? :(

[CanadaManada]

So you're allowed to kill birds during their breeding season ? :(

Overpopulated pest species? Yes.

[HelenG]

Impressive, but scary!!!
The place I've suggested for this years field meet has tons of snow geese...I'd love to see your Gos on them!!!

[Dan Paradis]

hey I don't know I was'nt there...are you hunters/falconers or just pet lovers ???ffs

the pics may be offending to the pet lovers I recon but if so its not your place here

it's in the migration pass...hunting is on untill may 25th overhere. the bird is an adult goose and normally it is flying well enough to get back in the toundra for breeding but that one met a hawker and his hunting bird

Dan

[Morb]

So you're allowed to kill birds during their breeding season ? :(

We could have a year round snow goose hunt and still have too many. They do a lot of damage to the crops in the fall.

[HelenG]

We could have a year round snow goose hunt and still have too many. They do a lot of damage to the crops in the fall.

Agreed, they actually have a problem in that they can't get enough hunters, even with a spring AND fall hunting season, to control the goose populations, there just aren't enough people hunting and way too many geese. They eat themselves out of house and home.
Plus, if they are on migration, they won't have started breeding yet!!!

[Morb]

Agreed, they actually have a problem in that they can't get enough hunters, even with a spring AND fall hunting season, to control the goose populations, there just aren't enough people hunting and way too many geese. They eat themselves out of house and home.
Plus, if they are on migration, they won't have started breeding yet!!!


That's right. Saskatchewan opened up for spring goose a few years ago to get more people to hunt them, but there just doesn't seem to much interest.
Once the landowners here find out you hunt geese they will come to you to get you to hunt on their property.

[Rabadswompe]

Reason for the N-American, Eastern Flyway spring snowgoose hunt : the populations #s are so high that the adults get most of the food on the nesting grounds and the year's young get trouble to attain migration weight... the Spring season is an attempt to re-balance things to preserve that species from a crash resulting from the die off of an aging populationunable to maintain is "renewal rate". Reason of imbalance ? Agriculture provided this bird with nutrition beyond what nature would produce. Soy, peanut (in the states), and the ever present Corn.

When the eastern flyway canada geese were on the decline, we stopped hunting them for a couple of years...this is the opposite principle with the same goal : conservation of the species.

Sorry... the ecology teacher in me just had to talk.

Great catch there Dan! :supz:This harris sees action and gets game! Extend my congrads to the falconer!

[Hawking]

Looks good too me. Legal, fair. Top game. Good catch, congrates to the falconer who bagged it:supz:

[CanadaManada]

hey I don't know I was'nt there...are you hunters/falconers or just pet lovers ???ffs

the pics may be offending to the pet lovers I recon but if so its not your place here

Dan

There are more than a few pet lovers on here, Dan.

Jus

[Chicquera]

Not pet lovers, just "sportsmen" ! apart from anything else your hawk is in danger of getting seriously injured too, just cant see why some people with big ego's think it's clever to see a small raptor catching big prey, falconry is about the "flight" not about watching a small raptor chew the head off a goose ! I find you're photo very distasteful and feel it shows falconry in a bad light ! Just my opinion, if I'm allowed to have one :rolleyes:

hey I don't know I was'nt there...are you hunters/falconers or just pet lovers ???ffs

the pics may be offending to the pet lovers I recon but if so its not your place here

it's in the migration pass...hunting is on untill may 25th overhere. the bird is an adult goose and normally it is flying well enough to get back in the toundra for breeding but that one met a hawker and his hunting bird

Dan

[Steve.T]

Not pet lovers, just "sportsmen" ! apart from anything else your hawk is in danger of getting seriously injured too, just cant see why some people with big ego's think it's clever to see a small raptor catching big prey, falconry is about the "flight" not about watching a small raptor chew the head off a goose ! I find you're photo very distasteful and feel it shows falconry in a bad light ! Just my opinion, if I'm allowed to have one http://www.falconryforum.co.uk/images/smilies/icon_eyes.gif


i wonder if you would be singing the same tune had it been say a peregrine of yours or a gyr of yours stooping 500 foot into a flock of them getting up....

[Chicquera]

Exactly my point Steve, I'm not against anyone killing anything but "falconry" is about the FLIGHT not the KILL ! That photo reminds me very much of the "David Kent" photo's that were in the News of the World years ago, it just isn't good PR for falconers or falconry, and this is an open forum !


i wonder if you would be singing the same tune had it been say a peregrine of yours or a gyr of yours stooping 500 foot into a flock of them getting up....

[Steve.T]

i agree, if it was taken on the ground before it could take flight then no sport,still ok, but no sport....

[Martin Whitley]

Actually what is offensive is someone stopped to take a photo rather than making strait in to dispatch the goose, or is that something no one worries about?
It's called respect for quarry.

[Redeye]

Actually what is offensive is someone stopped to take a photo rather than making strait in to dispatch the goose, or is that something no one worries about?
It's called respect for quarry.
Exactly, another thing i found strange is the leash & swivel on the floor in the 1st picture.

[Onyx25]

Actually what is offensive is someone stopped to take a photo rather than making strait in to dispatch the goose, or is that something no one worries about?
It's called respect for quarry.

Totally agree

[Dan Paradis]

ok thas it