Originally Posted by grecian.s1

Yea it was windy,thats one of the reasons he had his hood on as he kept baiting, that's a lovely looking bird in that pic mate, this is my mates second goldey in 2009 he was flying a 2 year old that he had imported from Germany. He had permission to fly on a lot of land in Durham and went up to fly one day with my brother, they had been there a couple hours any way bird got a flight to go over the brow of a hill and they couldn't find him so out with the telemetry turns out he flew a bit distance and landed just on the edge of a wood in the long grass wings spread as they walked up they thought he had just had a kill but he hadn't so they started to panic as the goldey couldn't seem to fold his wing in they assumed it was broke, so went straight to vets had X-rays etc turns out to have gun shot shrapnel in his wing unbelievably someone had deliberately shot him, it was a long healing process nursing him back to health but is now flying as a demonstration bird