Two hours till my game season

[Game & Pursuit Falcon UK]

Im sat here watching the clock, pointer at the ready, Gyr/Peregrine is waitng on nicely every time hes out. Cant wait for partridge season to start. Going to do my damdest too catch a wild (Non realesed) one in style. Anyone else in the same boat?

[Kornie]

lol, nice one K. Keep us posted and pictrured on that innevitabely dead partridge!

[PeelsBells]

Hope you have some desent photos :lol:

[Game & Pursuit Falcon UK]

I'll try for the photos, aint too good with this technology stuff yet though. Spent too long looking up falcons arses this A.I. season an need to get hawking again what you guys flying this season?

[PeelsBells]

Was flying a musket but he had different idea's to good on the wing and left with out saying goodbye. Little Sh.t!!!!!

[Hawkmaster]

MOVED FROM GENERAL FALCONRY TALK

[PeelsBells]

Just picking up my 2 harrises to use on the runway and Quinn Glass will be flying them as a cast again this year.
Would like to fly a gos again but just carnt justify £2000 when i am moving house.

[Wightwings]

a good story will be as interesting as the pics K........happy hawking mate

[OutFlying]

Was flying a musket but he had different idea's to good on the wing and left with out saying goodbye. Little Sh.t!!!!!

did you lose him, if so how ? don't you fit a transmitter - the marshalls micro fits nicely on a jack merlin so should be small enough, 3.5 grams with battery.

[Finnish]

So K how did you get on tell us please :lol:

[PeelsBells]

Outflying. I did my daily trip to the hill side to fly him. Correct weight and conditions. Let him of as he loves to circle whilst i am walking. This time he went up and up and that's when he sodded of down the valley. I had no telemetry on him no bells only anklets and flying Jesse's. I know you are going to say what a D__k but i breed them every year and at the end of the season i would of let him go. :roll:
Gutted
I always fly my harrises with telemetry as i use the Marshall's but not got around to buying the new one for the spars.
I have just put it down to experience and will learn next year.
The only good thing is that he was catching and he will be OK in the big wide world.

[OutFlying]

No mention of D__K, Andy - more interested in the way you where flying him. I flew my imprint spar for a couple of weeks without telemetry, but as she got more confident on the wing I fitted the micro transmitter and have had to use it only once so far. But without it I would have struggled to get her back, she had an encounter with a wild spar and travelled some distance.

When researching information before I got this spar, most people flew without a transmitter - there was a lot lost in the field. I value the time I have to put in the hawk highly and if it was lost during the season - would be at a loss what to do as I only fly the one hawk.

Jim.

[PeelsBells]

How have you been doing with her?
I love flying the spars in the hanger at Aerospace after the pigeons but this season no more.
I will be flying the harries in the next couple of days as the will be ready,they haven't finished their moult properly but by the time they have its time to put them down for breeding again. I still have one young female harris which will be ready in another 6 weeks as i like to pick them up at 20 weeks.
She has been brought up by a Finnish female gos as my birds didn't double clutch and i couldn't put her back with them after 10 days.
So i am hoping she will be a good bird. :o

[OutFlying]

She's going well, just this hot weather makes weight control a pain - now going down in weight again.

Just off onto the moors after the larks and pipits.