Meet my new Team mate "Biscuit"
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Meet my new Team mate "Biscuit"
Here's my new Team mate to fly along side my Kestrel ..only this lad bites a little harder ..hes a 50/50 peregrine/Kestrel Hybrid ...ive named him "Biscuit" because I was eating one when I acquired him ..just look at those feed for 11days old .
And here he is with his brothers and mother ..he will be in with them for the next 16weeks as he's being parent reared .
And here he is with his brothers and mother ..he will be in with them for the next 16weeks as he's being parent reared .
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23-06-2018, 03:33 PM
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Love birds of prey awesome creatures held a bald eagle in Florida last year awesome
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23-06-2018, 03:51 PM
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Fantastic aren't they mate ..ive been flying since I could walk ..always love spring and new life ..im glad I spotted this fellow as he's a new unproven breed ..so will take a good while to get my head round him and tune him into me and how I want him to work .
24-06-2018, 07:57 AM
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Keep it posted mate would like to see how he turns out
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24-06-2018, 11:43 AM
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Nice find mate. I've been using falconry on my events for years. I'm good friends with Terry Large do you know of him?
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29-06-2018, 02:14 PM
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He's so cute! Awesome stuff.
29-06-2018, 03:32 PM
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I assumed you would want to rear by hand to make ultra tame? I know nothing about birds (feathered or married)
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29-06-2018, 04:52 PM
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Some birds are better imprinted and aome are best parent reared ..anccipters like muskets ,spars and Gos hawk I prefer imprinted ..but falcon I prefer PR ..i flew a imprinted Gry/saker last year and it was hard work 3lb baby at your feet ..its nicw because you have more latitude on there hunting weight bit manners are terrible ..so I prefer them PR..the Kestrel side of him will make him loyal as Kestrels are very close and friendly cuddly bears ..yet the peregrine side is all fly high and kill .
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05-07-2018, 02:57 PM
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Chippy little fella...you gotta love Birds of prey, they are like Lizards and Snakes in that they are born with that "fuck off or I will have you" attitude.
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Yea I love there Atittude ..ive got 2 pics of an old Gry/saker I was loaned other year to get hunting ..when I get home ill find them out and post ..from cuddly bird to killer bird in two pics
06-07-2018, 03:12 PM
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My god, what a transformation, it’s like seeing a boxer at fight weight and holiday weight
03-08-2018, 04:16 PM
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Wow, transformation.
this bird took down a pigeon in our garden and ate it there and then.
05-08-2018, 06:03 PM
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Growing fast! Beautiful looking thing too.
19-12-2018, 09:09 AM
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Any update pics, how is it doing?
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Ah yea ..up to press she came into fully pledged by September ish ..I manned her up by roughly the end of September ..first 3 flights she was a bit clingy but after that she ranges around 570ft and so far given my busy work load and dodging the bad weather .she's caught 23 magpie 3 pigeon and 2 partridge ..she has a real thirst for the kill ..but yet looks soft as a box of frogs ..thanks for asking mate .
19-12-2018, 08:37 PM
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Thanks for the pics, she looks lovely. Sounds a proper killing machine too. Where my daughter rides they have an infestation of pigeons and doves, I asked if they wanted me to bring up an air rifle and plop a few (I don’t like killing anything but if a job needs doing) but they were worried about holes in the roof...I bet biscuit would sort that little problem out....they poop in the horse feed.
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No probs mate ..Yea she would see dinner tickets ..I don't persue hunting I just fly the birds if they kill they eat ..if they don't I feed them ..I like to let nature take its course if ya get me .
20-12-2018, 09:15 AM
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Yeah, that sounds the best was as it is just natural instinct taking over, doing what it’s supposed to do, unfortunately humans wiped out too many birds of prey so the natural balance of pigeons is a bit out.
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