II. Crow Hawking(mini): Using a dead frozen crow lure, suspend it about 10 feet off the ground. From about 100 feet away unhood the falcon and let her fly and bind to the frozen lure. Whistle(CR) and lower the falcon and lure to the ground. The falcon gives up the frozen lure and flies to the fist for food. Hood her and do it again. Do 3 to 5 "to ground" for 10 days. That is over 30 "to ground". III. Continue Backyard Training: Have an assistant twirl the frozen crow lure as you unhood the falcon from about 300 feet away. The assistant stoops the falcon once to the lure and then hides it under her coat. Whistle(CR) and have the falcon fly back to the fist for a tidbit. Hood and do again 3 to 5 times per session/day for about 10 days. Now the crow falcon has experienced over a total of 60 "to ground" trials. 4. Exercise: The merlin is trained in the morning and stooped to lure or jump-ups in the evening. Every third training day the crow falcon is stooped to the tennis ball lure up to 100 times or 100 to 200 jump-ups. 5. Crow falcon--Fly progressively able bagged game for about 6 more days with only 1 catch per day. Merlin--Is it E.B. Michell's hawking book or Mavrogato's or Lascelles' that says to first hunt molting adults because they don't ring and just fly to thicker cover? Whistle(CR) each put in "to ground" and feed up. After about 10 "to ground" go fly the ringing singing young of the year with your clumsy unhacked merlin. Using the CR is key. Jim Fustos