Hello to all

[awahl]

Hello everyone,
My name is Andy Wahl. I live in Northern California. I hunt primarily pheasants with falcons, but of course have done other things too. I bred birds for the last 6 years, and got out of it this year. Too much time, no money and a family of three kids and a wife. Anyway here are a few picures that I have taken in the last couple of years. Hopefully this worked! The peregrine is a tiercel semen donor I have been using to make peregrine prairie hybrids. The one hitting the duck is a female barbary (570 grams). The close up of the head is my pealsXbarbary female. She just got hit and killed by a car a couple of weeks ago. She was a great bird. It feels weird to have only one bird in the yard.
Andy

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Female 3/4 PealsXBarbary

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570 Gram about to hit a drake mallard

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The same Barbary in her first year with a mallard

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Tiercel peregrine Trotter

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Tiercel peregrine

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Tiercel peregrine

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Tiercel peregrine

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Just FYI to anyone interested: The [img] has to be [IMG] to upload the picture. In addition, in photobucket, there is a link to the right of the picture that you are viewing that you can click in to copy the [IMG] entire address. I am sure someone has already said that, but what can I say... I'm new!

[Lee Slikkers]

I had to do a little personal "cut & paste" to view them all but the pics & birds are stunners! Gorgeous looking birds. Thanks for posting them.

Lee

[Jimmy]

Hello Andy. Nice to have you.
Maybe Chris or Wes can fix the pics where we can all see them.

[Jimmy]

Great shots, and beautiful birds.

[manok]

Nice clear, bright, photographs

[`Chris L.]

Andy,
Welcome to the forum, i fixed the post so it will go to your original post

I llove the pictures.. you were right that male is stunning. Great pictures, what camera are you using. I just got a rebel XT 650 and it takes the best pictures. I love it.

I have enjoyed chatting with you the past couple of days, you have been very successful in breeding and flying falcons which will be an asset to this board. I hope you enjoy the forums and please don't hesitate to post.

thank you again for sharing your pictures.. IF you have more post away [smilie=icon_thumright.gif]

[awahl]

Thanks for the compliments. I have a mess of pictures. Those are a few of the better ones. I am just using a 5MP Kodak. The thing that sold me onthe camera was the good German lens, and the large size of it. It really lets the light in like the smaller lenses can't.
Chris, you might be interested in a few of his offspring. Here are a coupls of the peregrine prairies I have made and a couple of gyr/peregrineXprairies too.

By the way, all of the birds in these pictures are imprints. They all had really good manners except for the tribrid. She was odd.

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Here is the first falcon I made, a female tribrid

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My old prairie feeding her young this year

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Female Barbary

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My semen donor also raises young

http://i153.photobucket.com/albums/s212/andywahl/Savannahandbabyfemale002.jpg
My kids are the best for manning a new bird

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This female was my choice last year. She was perfect when I sold her. No vices at all, and strong as an ox. The one bird I was paid well for. Sorry for the condition of the block. It was an extra. I just thought that I would snap a few pictures before I got rid of her and it looks bad.

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The same bird

Hope it didn't bore you. Breeding is fun, at least it is for half the year!

[`Chris L.]

great pics.. your birds look very healthy.. i love the one of your little girl helping out..

[wesleyc6]

Andy,
I am so glad you found your way here!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!