Weekend Hawking Party

[chris kimble]

Some pics from last Saturday. Several guys from around the state came out for some bunny hawking and we were lucky enough to have a few cameras along! Enjoy.

Chris

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Mitch's Gos just a couple weeks after recovering from a broken leg! He's a great little bird.

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Jere's Passage Female RT.

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My Female Harris "Tink"

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My Male Harris on a CT.

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Ryan's Kestrel on a House Sparrow.

[jfneumann57]

those are some nice pics

[wesleyc6]

First time I ever saw a kestrel and a Gos on the same pic page and the kestrel look more intense. LOL

[Chris L.]

Great pictures Chris K... looks like you have plenty of Ct's to go around. Is that private property you are hunting on?

how hard is it to find rabbits there?

[Bryant Tarr]

Very nice! Looks like a blast :D

[lockedon67]

Great pictures, sklllfull photography.

[Saluqi]

Nice shots! Love the one of the flying bunnie!

[chris kimble]

Thanks everyone. Most of those photos were taken by a non-falconer friend of mine from town. He happened to call wanting to get some shots of my birds about the time we were organizing that hunt, and it all just fell into place. He took hundreds of pictures and I know there were some better shots, because I saw them! I'll be getting a cd of all the photos soon, and I will sift through them for some neat shots.

Chris, we dont have as many rabbits as usual but we can still find them pretty easily. This area is pretty "trashy" in that there is lots of hard cover. Few are the fields that dont have a lot of machinery and farm equipment scattered about, with rows of hay bales, cattle feeders, lots, etc, etc. Plumb thickets here pretty much spells rabbits, but they tend to grow in scattered impenetrable clumps that are usually surounded by native grass and lots of cedars, so all in all we get a lot of short slips. Very seldomly do I see a flight more than 10 or 20 yards long.

We only hunt private property here, but do drive to public lands here and there. We've actually taken to hunting near farm houses a lot lately, and can usually find pockets of a half dozen to a dozen rabbits at a decently sized farm house.....and they are usually in the middle of nowhere, so the flights are isolated but kinda ratty! We do what we can : )

Thanks again,

[everetkhorton]

Chris:
A nice group of Pictures!

[Bodarc]

Very nice pics Chris and a good hunt it seems.

[lockedon67]

Once again great pictures, personally I think you cant beat hawking fur and I much prefer it to the pointy-winged stuff.
I'm curious about the rabbit in the pictures, it looks similar in size to our native European type ?

[Falcon Boy]

Once again great pictures, personally I think you cant beat hawking fur and I much prefer it to the pointy-winged stuff.


Should try getting the best of both worlds,flying the pointy wings on fur

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[lockedon67]

Now that would take some beating, is fur a regular quarry?

[Falcon Boy]

We've only taken the one rabbit so far but it is our goal. The fields are mighty thick with cover here and full of holes for the rabbits to get down.

[shortwing]

Very nice pictures I had a falcon a few years ago that would take rabbit all the time she even had a go at a brown hare stooping and grabbing its head but she bit off more than she could chew

Dave