Rio, or “Guero” (Whitey or Blondie as opposed to Tavo’s little black Gyr MERLIN Negrito) is making progress. Photos by Shiri Hoshen, training by Octavio Cruz… UPDATE: The little guy has brains too! Tavo writes: “Last night Güero flew off after chasing two rabbits. I got him back right after dark. “He flew back to …
Tag: Falconry
A little more photoblogging…
From Scott McNeff, to cheer us all by demonstrating how a bird (Sharpshin “Boomer”) and a dog (viszla “Fran”, after Fran Hamerstrom) can bond quite on their own. He writes: “… One day last week, “Boomer” caught a bird on the wing – the dog had steadied up at the flush, and I watched as …
Birdage
Rio with his ball. He still has down. I am not used to hulking 38 ounce tiercels and their prolonged infancy- biggest male falcon I have ever flown, and slowest to mature. Though it may take him into the rains… cool, in several senses…
Pre- flight
Pre- flight training at Lee Henderson’s La Jencia Ranch. In the last three I am alternating an oversized Kazakh hood he has been training with and a proper Gyr hood– the rest are self explanatory. Double or right click for BIG images. Lib reminds me to say that the ranch has good grass over most …
Update on the new kid
He is just at the age that he can trash the house, and soon we must take him up, but he is a lot of fun. What in the world do people talk about who don’t have animals? And what are these THINGS on my legs? Oversized Kazakh jesses designed for a Siberian Gos, too …
A Baby arrives
From Dan Konkel in Sheridan– a male, 3/4 Gyr, 1/4 Saker. At this age his schedule is pretty simple…
Flying Puppies?
After seeing the photo below titled “What is this man doing?” Jess suggested “You have acquired a flying puppy and are playing lure toy with it.” Well, the Gyr Saker coming in soon is called “Itilga” in Turkic: “Dog Hawk” . And I was testing my old pole lure made by the late Frank Beebe, …
Central Asian Dogs and Falconry
First, a wonderful film from Kyrgizstan– in English! Next, an amazing album of photos by our friend Jutta, who traveled there this spring. I have already posted a few of her photos. Another film, from Turkmenistan. Notice the smaller Sakers there, more like Prairie falcons than Gyrs. The style of hunting is much like ours, …
Eagle Dreamers
I must assume that ALL my readers have seen some version of this: I have gotten over 100 emails, and they are still coming in. The one most saw was a BBC article (see David Zincavage’s blog), but I like the photographer’s, and his background info. It seems that the wild men of central Asia, …
Turkmeni Falconry
Some of you know Vadim Gorbatov’s painting of a Turcoman falconer waiting out a sandstorm with tazi and saker. Sir Terence Clarke just sent this excellent little video of hunting there. My Ataika, though born in Kazakhstan, is rather a Turkmeni type. And the falconry is almost just like the kind we practice but for …