Falconry World

Well here we are again. I’ve just done one week with my female Merlin, that I bought off Rob Cole from Cardiff, and got a male yesterday from Alan Horton in Devon. The female weighed in 225g when I got her last week which is about 8oz in real money. The male is 175g. After manning for all of about one hour the female fed on fist on a freshly killed quail in the Millennium stadium were I was to film speedway later that evening. Since then she has been with me most of the time. Whilst typing away on the keyboard or watching TV, she’s been steady as a rock.

If these were my first birds i would think falconry was easy. They’re so laid back its like they’ve been manned for weeks. So after the initial bits of manning and feeding on fist I’m now at the stage were the female is flying to a creance about 20ft away and she still weighs about 800g. The jack is feeding happily on fist, though is alittle bit jumpy. Both are to be fitted with Marshall radio telemetry track pack mounting systems. I’ll use a Marshall micro transmitter on both. I’ll take some photographs and maybe do a short video if I have time of fitting the Marshall track pack process which is relatively easy. I think they make a nice pair, should be great fun to fly…..Thanks to Carl cheshire from Gamehawker for the great cadge and travel box, and Steve Kelly for the indoor block. Hope all goes wel with the new site Carl . I’ll do a full review of both products soon.