Falconry Displays

Well what can we say – worrying times for all particularly if you have elderly parents or grand parents – knowing what to do or knowing ‘what you should do’ – but they are all ‘on balance’ decisions as we are discovering. As a keeper of animals and running a falconry business for many years we have encountered numerous disease threats along the way leading to measures to protect stock and the economy.  There is an ever present  worry of a ‘species jump’ of the pathogen into human beings. Which is what has happened with coronavirus or covid 19.

We have bookings ahead for the season but recently the enquiries have have slowed – which is understandable – to be expected in fact. Whether the bookings we have will happen ‘who knows’ – the decisions will be government led of but many business’s are making their own decisions of what is best for staff and customers and to manage a business through this difficult time.

We are all hoping that things may not be too bad – if people act responsibly. We do not have an epicentre of the disease here in the UK no city or town shut down to contain the virus – that may change but at the moment it is spreading everywhere and is becoming ubiquitous. The acceptance of this is part of the government strategy to slow the spread of the virus to flatten  its peak –  to spread out demand for medical intervention and push the virus into the summer when other respiratory conditions are less common and the coronavirus tank comes plainly into view. It will also buy us more time for therapeutic drug development and hopefully a vaccine.

Anyway we continue to fly the birds and have the full team flying. Our young falcon ‘Frank’ is out of his winter aviary and we are excited to see how he goes this season.

I sign off with a p[icture falcon of our oldest falcon ‘Leah’ who is 17 from yesterday on the lure after stooping at it.