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Falconry is often referred to as the highest form of bird watching, its practitioners are dedicated to their birds and invest hundreds if not thousands of hours into their training and development. The dog work also consumes much of our time and brings as much pleasure and enjoyment as flying our birds. Witnessing the teamwork and flights never gets old even after 45 years of striving for perfection in this imperfect field sport.

Here is a a short video of a recent flight with my tiercel gyr peregrine Wesson in his 3rd season. He is the surviving brother of a pair I had in my team and his brother sadly died as a result from injuries sustain hunting partridge a few days earlier. The absence of experienced veterinarians in our province means an injured bird invariably becomes a dead bird. In the wild scientific studies have shown an estimated 75% of all raptors bred will not make their first birthday. In spite of my care and attention things happen as it does in nature. It never gets easy when it happens but we move on. Flights like these have a healing effect.

I hope you enjoy it !