Greetings from Maine! Looking for Mainers

[lrwillard]

Hi all,

I'm a student in Portland from the Salt Institute and I'm looking to make a documentary on falconing. I was wondering if any Maine falconers out there would be willing to help out, give some info, and talk about the subject.

Thanks! Message me if any of you all have any info.

Lucas

[Dirthawking]

Hi Lucas, Welcome to NAFEX. You might have better luck in your search if you explain to everybody what the documentary is for. How is it to be used, etc...
Falconers as a whole can be leary of anybody wanting to film/document what we do.

Also, you might try contacting the state club and see if they can help you in any way.

There is alot of good information here on this site to get you started. Such as...what we do is refereed to as Falconry, not falconing.

Falconry is the art of taking a bird of prey and catching wild quary/game with it. Depending where you look, this definition will vary some, but the idea is still the same.

The modern apprentice site is also good for understanding the basics behind this sport.

Again, welcome to NAFEX

[lrwillard]

Thank you for the advice, dirthawking.

My goal is to produce a six minute multimedia documentary on falconry in Maine.

This documentary is being produced for the Salt Institute for Documentary Studies, a non profit school in Portland, ME. I am currently enrolled in the radio documentaries program.


The material is not being sold or being produced for profit.

I aim to meet up with any interested falconers who would like to share what they do and their sport.

Thanks to all who are interested in helping out.

[Saluqi]

A good person to talk to would be Scott McNeff (http://www.nafex.net/member.php?u=1060) he's from Maine and he posts here regularly. He posted a photo documentary that someone made of him hunting squirrels in the Maine woods. As I understand it the Maine falconry community is very conservative and hesitant about videos of the sport, don't be surprised if you run into some obstacles.

[mainefalconer]

Lucas,

Paul is right... we're a pretty conservative bunch up here. Feel free to contact me and we can talk, but what you're talking about doing has already been done. Samantha Broun and Amanda Kowalski followed me around for about a week with cameras and microphones and produced a piece that is exactly what you're talking about. I'll contact them and see if they can send you a link of the piece that they put together.

I can tell you that if you contact the Maine Falconry and Raptor Conservancy, you wont have any luck getting anyone to work with you.
PM me and I'll get back to you when I get a moment.

Glad to hear that you're interested in our sport.

-Scott McNeff

[mainefalconer]

Lucas,....

Here you go man;

http://www.soundlightmedia.com/?page_id=200

[tumble]

Scott, I'd been meaning to ask you for a link to that for a while. Great stuff, Man.

[YARAK191]

That was great scott really just perfect!

[mainefalconer]

Tom and Rich,

Thanks guys. Glad you enjoyed it.
I do love squirrel hawking....
But this year, I'll have to get out with Tom and his two redtails to get my fix since I don't let my gos fly squirrels and I don't think my merlins are up to the challenge!

[corny13]

Great video Scott, I just forwarded it to my apprentice. My buddy Dave E. has sent me pics of trapping with you. Keep up the good work!

[mainefalconer]

Hey Corny!

Glad you liked it. Happy also, to hear that you're friends with Dave. He is a SUPER guy. I've known him for a long time, but never really got to spend much time with him until recently. He and his wife are Top Shelf people!

[yellowdogdave]

That's a most excellent clip Scott - thank you very much for sharing the link.

[Zarafia]

Wow. I agree with everybody else here, Scott, that's a great clip. Thank you very much for sharing it. I will definitely recommend it to people who ask me about falconry in general (in a positive way, of course). Your dialog is great, you speak very intelligently and clearly. And the pictures are excellent. I think that it is a very good representation of falconry. Thank you.