Comments on: Operation Desert Dove – Sunday, June 1 2003

By: Evelyn

Evelyn — Mon, 03 May 2010 23:51:16 +0000

I remember that post well. It was “Desert Dove” then, wasn’t it?

By: rebecca

rebecca — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 17:51:53 +0000

At least you’re going out in it, Joe. I’ve mostly just been moping inside, staring out the window.

There was a post called “$1000 on a String.” I was thinking about resposting it as well.

And Ryan, I guess you are kind of born knowing that you will be going to to the darkside…aren’t you?

By: Ryan

Ryan — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 03:05:07 +0000

Ditto to what Joe said except replace Fog with freeze. Subconsciously you probably always knew you were a longwinger.

By: Joe

Joe — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 21:23:26 +0000

Rebecca,
I do remember that post along with several others that first year. I remember so may of them like the one titled “$1000 on a string” or something like that. As I have stood in the rain and fog over the last few weeks looking for ducks I keep thinking what the hell am I doing. It would be so much easier to trap a coop or or something and forget about all this longwing stuff. Then I look at my falcon doing what he was born to do and I think, nah, I would not trade this for anything. Then again I could always trap a coop for those foggy days…..

By: rebecca

rebecca — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 15:57:09 +0000

Holly — wow how do I answer all of that in a comment? LOL

For your simple questions, I would say check the glossary page in the sidebar. (YAY! An actual need for that darn thing)

Have you picked up LIFT? I think I made (or at least I tried to make) the answers to your questions clear in the book while also exploring what it means to a woman to hunt with a predatory bird. You might like it. At the very least if would give you an idea of whether you truly would want to pursue falconry….

Best!

By: Holly

Holly — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 14:59:52 +0000

so, enlighten me.

dirthawker?

longwinger?

what is the difference? Is it in training? How do you really *train* a hawk to hunt? Don’t they just do it? Or is it a process? Is it more than teaching them to come back to hand?

I’m so curious about this…..I don’t hunt but I think I could get into (at least) training the birds.