Back after 25 year absence

I was really into falconry 25 years ago and did bird control at air bases and international airports using falconry.Got married and had kids and now that my kids are in their teens I have decided to get back into the sport for some fun with my son whio is quite keen on flying a bird also.

I am intereted in a small accipiter and am looking at the European Sparrowhawk due to ease of importing from the US into Canada . I Would love to fly the sharpy or Coopers but without a harvest in Ontario and no local breeders producing this year rules them out.


Brian

(welc)!!

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Originally Posted by bluckman

I have decided to get back into the sport for some fun with my son whio is quite keen on flying a bird also
Brian

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I too want to teach my son someday about falconry. I think it can be a great family sport.

(welc) WELCOME! (welc)

keep us posted, and good luck! I too would like to teach some youngsters about falconry, once I have amassed enough knowlegde to pass on :)

welcome sometimes things get in the way
but they are choices and kids and the wife are great
hopefully you can blend them together

(welc) back to falconry Brian. Maybe some day they will make it easier to cross the border with our birds. Keep us posted on your progress.

Brian,
Your message brought back pleasant memories as I have followed a similar path. I became inactive in about 1968 after my last falcon, a female Prairie was shot. Then in 1987, my youngest son then 13 and living with his mother elsewhere but nearby, announced he would be pursuing falconry. His sponsor lived some distance away so in order to help him with his first falconry birds, a Kestrel in 1988 and passage male Red-tail in 1989, I reentered the sport.

My son is now raising a family in Utah and is inactive but I haven't missed a beat. I started out with a passage hen Red-tail in 1989 then took on a second bird, a hand-me- down, 5 year old female Harris' Hawk just before I retired. In the mid 1990s, I also tried my hand with a second hand Gyr / Prairie for three years without much success. I was able to find a good home for her with an educational outfit in Texas. I have since pretty much settled with flying Harris' Hawks as the type of quarry here in western Oregon coupled with my age makes hunting with these hawks more practical.

Good luck on you renewed interest and hope you have the same success and pleasure as I have these past 20 years.

Richard F. Hoyer (Corvallis, Oregon)

I understand the excitement of hunting with the family. I have a seven and four year old that really enjoy being little rabbit flushers every chance they get. Congrats on getting back in to the sport.