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Les i am very lucky, the chap has 40 years experience and was taught by the best there is which is the same person who wrote the book im reading on the subject. I'm the first person he has agreed to help as others have asked and then questioned what he has told them so pointless but i'm extremely keen and what im reading matches his beliefs as he was taught by the author anyway.

Milamber there are so many questions once you start it's unreal. But to answer yours you get the bird from about 12 weeks or older depending on the species. The control in preventing the bird from flying away comes down to feeding mansgement and weight control. The bird has to be reliant on you for its source of food. If you let a bird off or it escapes from your glove when it has just eaten then unless you have a transmitter on tbat bird you aren't going to get it back. Hence the importance of the falconers knot.

No license in the UK is required.

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For those who were interested, still going with this with my mentor and his Goshawk and my parents got me a falconry day out for Christmas which I had last week and was bloody superb. Spent all morning flying owls and a vulture and then all afternoon with a Harris Hawk walking miles in glorious countryside and flying her. Here's me with the Harris Hawk which I hope is going to be me by the end of this Summer every day with my own one:



I can't wait as that day was a dream. If money was not an object it's what I would do every day for a job. May be one day!

For anyone thinking about doing this do an experience day and see how you feel at the end of it, you wont be disappointed.

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Stunning birds and never seen one in the flesh. Had some released at a golf course near my parents so think there has been quite a push to bring their numbers up.

As they are predominantly a scavenger, the live prey they take is only rodents and insects they aren't used in falconry.