Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end

[lizblackdog]

So I was talking to deathwokclan, and I go to Youtube to show her the Spike tuggy video. And while I'm there, I'm distracted by a National Geographic video of an eagle hunting a chevrotain, and then it occurs to me that I could do a Youtube search for "falconry", and I wonder why I never thought of it before. I'm not usually so slow to find new ways to torture myself.

Edited to add:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=34SO5LbZx3s

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_M2OLYG694Q - includes working ferrets.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EnWeN02DLmU

These killed me. They're English. I might even have met the guy, though I can't tell. Don't click the first two if you have a problem with furry mammal death. This isn't a display at a fair, it's the real thing. That was my life. Third one is a redtail, which is what mine was.

Comments

Re: WOW.

[lizblackdog.livejournal.com]

That description reminds me of a spot we used to hunt - there was a small shallow pond in the middle of a big bare field, with a few trees and bushes round it. We didn't have a dog, but if we put the hawk up in one of the trees and beat the bushes something nearly always ran out. That was where Camilla caught her only pheasant.

We'd have caught a lot more if we'd been working with a dog, only I couldn't have one then. I should have looked for some dog work in the videos - most falconers have GSPs or something along those lines.