Quote Originally Posted by hcmcelroy View Post
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.
So your HH was trapped last month? In the Phoenix area?

I'm pretty sure the HH I got last year was a late winter/early spring bird as I trapped her in November. The first day out in the field with Dana, Anne and Bob down in Sierra Vista, she seemed to chase everything. Including a scary chase after a Roadrunner that nearly put her directly under a moving police car! Dana can tell you all about that one.

We took my traps down to Bowie and Wilcox yesterday and didn't have much luck. Found one hag female in Bowie and one in Wilcox, set the trap hoping others would come out of the woodwork like they sometimes do... and nothing. Although we did find a nest tree in Wilcox. I'll probably go out later this month to either Tucson or Phoenix. I'm assuming the drought you were talking about is having an affect on the HH's in Wilcox?