falconry

dodderangler

I've never known anyone to good their Harris. Is there a reason as to why you hood yours?
Also I noticed with my bird that I had she didn't seem to preen her feathers as much as she did in her second year.
And her feather looked in Shiite but in her second year she preened a good bit and loved her showers

bulleyes

The Hood was a personal choice. I too don't know anyone with a hooded Harris but you'd be surprised how easy its made my life. Its apparently very difficult to make an older bird to the hood so I decided to go with the hood initially and then If I decide at a later date its not for me I can just leave it off.

dodderangler

I miss doing it but I just havint got the time to fly a bird at all.
Is she finishe her moult or near the end of it?
What she flying at?

bulleyes

I can imagine how you feel. But its better to have no bird than one you don't have time for.

She's finished her moult but not back on the glove yet. I think it will be about 3/4 more days before the manning will start again. Cant wait.

Have no idea what weight she'll hunt at this year. She started last season at 1.14 and finished at 2lbs even. Both hard hunting weights. I caught her up a few days ago after 7 days without food and she was still 2.8 so quite a bit of weight to loose yet. This warm weather is slowing down the weight loss big time.

Ape Owners

Still a week or so before I'll start dropping her weight down,hope to have her going by end of month anyway.Quick question for ya Bulleyes,that FM in pic,on 434,yeah?.Just its nice to know who's on what .

bulleyes

Ape Owners wrote: »

Quick question for ya Bulleyes,that FM in pic,on 434,yeah?.Just its nice to know who's on what .

Its the FM800 on 216.

Ape Owners

bulleyes wrote: »

Its the FM800 on 216.

Cheers,on 216 myself here in wicklow.New FM 100 on way from the states.