Highs & Lows Of Falconry HD 1080p

If you are in this sport for any length of time and if you fly wild quarry daily as I do for up to 7 months a season, then statistically at some point or other, shit happens. Today was one of those days where the highs and lows of this art can be condensed even into the same day. A miscalculation on my or the falcons behalf can result in injury or death. Today Smith caught a partridge and in his outrun the partridge dangling in his right foot hit the top strand of a barbed wire fence. The partridge took the full force of the hit but in doing so the act of breaking from his grip appears to have at best dislocated the right leg or worse still broken it. I will know tomorrow when the vet opens. He seems to be partially standing on it or using it to balance and has some fist clenching movement. However, the leg is incredibly sore and he favours it.
It is likely his season is over but my concern is that he fully recovers.

The highs were that after taking Smith home to rest I went back out with Wesson my other male gyr peregrine and he put on his best flight of the season so far, also with a high speed bind that he scooped a few feet off the ground and pitched up 60ft in the air before landing in the nearby standing crop. Its been 5 years since my last accident when my tiercel peregrine blew his kidneys out hitting / colliding with a partridge too hard and then 12 years prior, another tierce peregrine hit a single strand of electric wire fence at a distant rural home that had pigeons fly out of a horse barn well over a mile away. Even when you do your best to avoid fences and wires something can always go wrong. Falconry is so full of emotions. The massive emotional investment exceeds any financial investment and when we see a great flight it rises you high but a disaster can make you hit rock bottom in an instant. Yet we dust ourselves off and somehow continue.