Greets, everyone! I've been prowling around various forums over the past few months, and a few people pointed me here. Apparently I'd found the International (UK) Falconry forums before I found the North American ones. Whoops!

Anywho, I'm 26 and while I've been fascinated by birds of prey for as long as I can remember, I've only semi-recently started doing the research so I can take my test and get my Apprenticeship going. I've read a bunch of books and browsed countless forums and websites, and I'm almost ready to take the plunge so to speak.

I plan on going to the WaFalconers.org picnic in July to hang out and meet some people (and their birds!) and go from there. Is there anyone else planning on attending this picnic? I'd love to be able to, well, know someone before I go, instead of being the odd duck out. I'm rather shy...