Withadrawal of an imprint goshawk: OC ideas?

[jaredharris]

In the book imprinting accipiters he concluded that if you drop the weight prior to hard penning you can avoid this which really does work with the one bird I worked with. Really not doing this does nothing but just set you back a week or two.

but tidbitting the bird as you walk by goes a long way in making the bird look forward to you walking up instead of worried about you coming close.

[kitana]

Thanks guys!

I regained my bird's trust by tidbitting and moving away from him when he was not acting fearful. It took me 3 days to have him back on the fist, and 4 days back in the house. Slight weight reduction but not too much as he is vocal and mantles a lot on the fist when reduced too much.

So it worked!