Falconry World

Trying to find the ultimate BOP is much like trying to find the ultimate…
Your going to get many different answers, but the truth is unless you’ve tried them all you won’t know…

When you first start, anything will do… you want the easiest and the quickest to enter and you’re not to fussy about the looks or how many people have flown her before you. This is OK for a while but after seeing a friends bird go, you decide you want more…

Then you get a little more adventurous. You try something faster with beautiful plumage which has a fast temper, and is hot off the mark, exciting to watch and gets lots of stares from passers by. But many bad habits appear like sulking after a missed flight that had you satisfied but not her. She demands lots of manning and expensive equipment to keep her and then she starts self hunting and you move on to something else.

Next you try a bird that takes a while to get up! but when she comes down its worth the wait but it takes years to train and even then they never perform as well in a crowd. When you fly alone its amazing but you want someone else to acknowledge how good she is. You start taking her for granted and you stop putting as many hours in with her. Then like the other she starts wondering around and after chasing her about you move on.

Then you get really into one and find you can’t try others without getting into a huge amount of trouble because of the friends you’ve made whilst flying this bird and flying two at once is really difficult as you can never give one your full attention and you end up flying the best one and only flying the other when the she is fed up or injured. Eventually you decide that the best BOP is the one you’ve got and if it puts up with you, it has to be good. After all the ultimate BOP is the one your with.