Michelle,

I have a dual imprinted aplomado falcon and a late passage male HH trapped about 30 days. He is freelofted in the mew and so far held near empty trapped weight (560 grams) but I'm struggling to retain tameness so I can weigh and feed to a given weight each late afternoon. I started the force system yesterday and got him on the scale...

Your HH of last season sounds like a late passage to me. Strange as it may seem I've never trapped one with only one pair of flights. All my late passagers have had two flights and the two decks as adult feathers. I've preferreed the late passager for decades. They are fancy flyers in our desert.

I prefer the late passage because they switch from rabbits to quail more easily than the younger passage. However, my best quail hawk was a young passage that took to quail about the 2nd or 3rd day he was flown and never looked back.

Harry.