Harris on mallard?

[Sean]

how would you go about hunting mallard with a harrishawk? woudl you maybe flush towards the bird in a tree, or would you fly following on ect. what are the flights like, could a harris take on a duck in fair flight?

[ColdZero]

i hope to try my RT on duck, and i was planning the way you described. Have her waiting in a tall tree and flush them towards her. It all depends on where you are though, tactics might be completely different.

[HawkNorth]

this is how it went for me i was standing by a burrow waiting for a rabbit to appear , lapse of concentration the bird bates i let him go hes of and out of site in the direction of a pond by the time i get there i find him soaked my 1st season was glad to get him back

[Sean]

lol

[HawkNorth]

heres another one he misses a rabbit flys up into a pylon spies 2 more in the next field has ago for them to close to cover he misses and continues on across the field over the hedge across the nexts field over agroup of trees across that field over the road into another field and another pond were he stayed the night the next morning cutting it short he returned to the fist with a full crop he also smelt like he had ate the enternal organs thats ducks one thing ill not forget he was quick to get into the bath

[Tim Laycock]

how would you go about hunting mallard with a harrishawk? woudl you maybe flush towards the bird in a tree, or would you fly following on ect. what are the flights like, could a harris take on a duck in fair flight?
The Harris would have to be at the top of its game, Very fit and if possible in a high tree overlooking the flush.
If you canot gaurentee at least three of these things then forget ducks with harris hawks

[SparsTheOne]

duck are possible with any of the larger hawks but is like blackbird says,if the hawk is not fit and in the right place at the right time even the best bird in the world is not going to catch a duck, the only hawk that is able to catch a duck off the fist in a fair flight is a goshawk and even that slip has to be set up really well and the duck must not know your there until the gos has been sliped or is about to be sliped.

my redtail is very fit and even out of a tree with the advanage he gets blown away by ducks that are on water,he only gets real close when there on a bank and they dont see him coming, and then he only gets a foot full of feathers.

jase.

[Dave G]

my harris male takes the ducks of the ponds makes his way to a tree then off he goes it is quite hard to catch a duck in full flight but takes then as their taking off with out any probs :D

[Tim Laycock]

Ducks "On the rise" are feasable with a fit MHH but I find life too short.
They are a difficult but rewarding quarry to pursue with a parrabuteo!

[Sean]

i know a good place where i could get him entered very easily on ducks, there ducks that have escaped from a shoot and theres loads. would i be better of netering him on rbabots or ducks first tho?

[Bones]

I have posted a piccy of my MHH ona duck taken in flight the other evening but then again i only had him a month and where i recaptured him from (canal)he had been seen takin ducks for a number of days by the lock keeper hense why he had been reported as they had complaints about him hitting the local ducks people like to go and feed
Again though he was real fit when i received him and ive been mataining his fitness training since i got him and also trying to man him down as really aggresive up to yet
I look forward to having a good season on duck and pheasant with him all is looking good so far and perhaps a few rabbit who knows lol
PAUL

[Kornie]

I take it you mean wild mallard? As opposed to the community pond lol?

I've seen a red tail in full stoop nose dive into a river after a duck thats gone under, then watched in awe as he swam quite relaxed back to the banking, climbed up and shook himself off :shock: My mate was ready to go wading in after him, but the RT swam quite happily out himself. Never forget that moment.

Great fun...

[Sean]

lol kornie there wild, but released from a shoot so pretty tame towards humans(dunno about birds though lol)