Falconry Displays

Archive for April, 2021

We have has some lovely weather recently with some warm days and light winds – just great for flying. ‘Pete’ our Kestrel is really coming on well in the absence of ‘Leah’ he will do some of the arena flying this year – so I have pushed his fitness up and he flying really well – vertical stoops and all.

Having had such an extended break it will be both strange and challenging to restart – but restart we will. Not having the opportunity to restock and retrain I have asked ‘Bo’ our Eagle Owl to do another season – though a gentler one in terms of flying. However with a light program of retraining and plenty of food – she has laid an egg! in her aviary.

When she was a lot younger she would lays eggs every year. Of course they are not fertile. What I would do was to let her sit on a clutch for 30 days and then pull them. This would stop her recycling. If you take away each egg as it is laid then the bird will just keep laying another egg to replace the one she had lost. This is nature.

With all year round flying she had not come into advancing breeding condition for years – with covid everything has changed. Anyway I will leave her with this one egg – she has not laid another one yet. One egg is remarkable for a bird that is 33 years old! I will report back when I blog next.

Suffice to say we open for business!

I leave you with a picture of Madam who helps me train the birds and keeps them used to dogs. She has just caught a tennis ball – a picture entitled ‘Your Grace’.