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Post by tired of scraping coyotes on Feb 3, 2018 12:37:37 GMT -5
nice young fella asked to hunt and we said sure. he has a red tailed hawk. nathan and kathy are going with him the first time to show the property and watch the hawk hunt. pretty cool! too bad that hawk can`t kill deer. we saw 14 in the front field a few days ago. oh ya, sam missed a mink as nathan and(I sqw one yesterday run across the lane.
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Post by brandonlee170 on Feb 3, 2018 14:58:58 GMT -5
That would be pretty cool to watch.
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Post by tired of scraping coyotes on Feb 3, 2018 15:45:32 GMT -5
it was a 5 minute hunt. they got a rabbit real quick right behind the barn. he said he has to let the bird eat some to keep it happy, but then the bird is full and won`t hunt more today. after the hawk ate he lured it off with dead baby chicks and pocketed the rest of the rabbit. we got a pic of him and nathan but not the rabbit. he`ll be back again in a day or two and hunt again. this was the hawks first kill. he just captured the hawk wild early dec, so the training must have been intense. amazing anyone can catch an adult hawk and train it in 60 days to not just fly away. he told us how he traps adult hawks, they make a little basket and fill it with mice and then hang multiple little snares over the top and the hawk gets tangled by the feet and where ever in the snares. then the training starts. 60 days later his first kill and comes back to the falconer.
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dewey
Trap Builder
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Post by dewey on Feb 3, 2018 16:42:40 GMT -5
I never really thought about Hawks killing snakes until I saw 2 fly over me with a snake dangling from their talons. Probably why we don’t see a lot of snakes anymore.
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Post by DaveM on Feb 4, 2018 7:46:34 GMT -5
I've always thought that was really cool! I'll see if Mike can post the pic, as it's saying the file is too large again.
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Post by gameboy on Feb 4, 2018 12:30:38 GMT -5
I've been told that they drive down the road and see a hawk on the phone or other lines, they toss a cage out the window rigged to tangle. Said they are real easy to catch. I've never seen one hunt like that but I bet that was neat.
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Post by tired of scraping coyotes on Feb 4, 2018 13:32:17 GMT -5
nathan was flushing by jumping on brush piles. the hawk would sit high up in a tree till the ground man flushed something. quick as the rabbit was up the hawk dived on it. he was eating it while the rabbit was still alive and squealing. he opeedn the guts first and sucked them down like spaghetti
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Post by mjkluesener on Feb 5, 2018 9:19:10 GMT -5
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Post by tired of scraping coyotes on Feb 5, 2018 10:18:52 GMT -5
thanks mike for posting that. I wish doyle was here to see this. he would have liked that. I`m betting he is smiling down looking at it anyway.
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Post by DaveM on Feb 6, 2018 5:20:12 GMT -5
That's a great pick. I bet it takes many hours of training etc.
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Post by tired of scraping coyotes on Feb 6, 2018 6:04:05 GMT -5
taken 12 years on nathan and 60 days on a hawk. hmmmmm. I see dave is up bright and early. I`m turning the last 4 coyotes today. took almost 3 weeks to finish all the coyotes. still 2 more cats to do then I`m done. done ee done done. well, still a freezer full of coon and skunks. they been there a year already, whats one ore year? kathy still has here 3 snares out so bet that done eee done done isn`t true. I`m getting antsy to start some woods work and see a little warm weather. probably going to take as long to see that as train a hawk!
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Post by mjkluesener on Feb 6, 2018 8:48:39 GMT -5
Nate 12 already? Time just flys right by. See he has caught that "rubber boot disease" must have something to do with being a trapper.
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Post by mjkluesener on Feb 6, 2018 9:09:48 GMT -5
Falconry is a really neat hobby. From what I understand it takes years to reach the level of owning and training a bird. Paired up with a experienced falconer and slowly taught the trade. Like trapping should be. Would weed out the "quick buck" mentally. Any Tom thingy or Harry can set out a line. Doing it right and the put up are another story. Hats off to you who have takin the time to shown the newbies the ropes.
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Post by tired of scraping coyotes on Feb 6, 2018 10:11:31 GMT -5
the guy hunting here said he was fascinated with it since a young kid. he said there was a book on falconry in the library when he was a kid ( maybe nathans age) the he just kept checking out over and over and finally the librarian told him he couldn`t ck. it out anymore , so others would have a chance to read it. sounded like me as a kid about trapping. indian relics, or forestry. he did tell us how long to get the falconry permits and yes it is years of understudy. lot of hoops to jump thru and regulations too.
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Post by DaveM on Feb 7, 2018 5:27:35 GMT -5
I'm ready for warm weather too. Cant wait to see the mushrooms and ginseng come up.
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