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These are a few pics of my male Golden eagle hunting.

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Ratman · Posted: Thu Mar 08, 2007 5:49 pm Post subject:

Brilliant Pics PP.
I posted a piece yesterday about a friend who said he had a mate who goes hawking at night in a lamp. Have you heard of or ever done this ?
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Pheasant Plucker · Posted: Thu Mar 08, 2007 5:54 pm Post subject:

bodger · Posted: Thu Mar 08, 2007 6:00 pm Post subject:

Even more pleased that you've joined now. Superb piccies.
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Ratman · Posted: Thu Mar 08, 2007 6:09 pm Post subject:

What region of the country are you in PP ?
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Leonie · Joined: 10 Feb 2007 Posts: 1506 Location: West Sussex

Fantastic photos, that's fourth one is amazing!

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Pheasant Plucker · Posted: Thu Mar 08, 2007 7:58 pm Post subject:

Heres my female Goshawk whos now in my breeding project;

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Crow wing · Joined: 10 Feb 2007 Posts: 629 Location: England

Brilliant camera work PP

Gareth · Posted: Thu Mar 08, 2007 9:46 pm Post subject:

Apologies to those of you who have seen this photo before. It is the only digital photo of Paddy, my red tail hawk that I have

Paddy and Geneveve, in their breeding avairy last august.

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kaz · Posted: Thu Mar 08, 2007 9:50 pm Post subject:

Did they breed Gareth?

Leonie · Joined: 10 Feb 2007 Posts: 1506 Location: West Sussex

Geneveve is a cool name! that's my middle name

nice looking birds gareth

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Gareth · Posted: Thu Mar 08, 2007 10:19 pm Post subject:

Yes the bred exceptionally well last year. it was paddy's first breeding season. 11 chicks from two clutches of eggs.

Geneveve is my friend Peter's, female Red tail hawk, and it his breeding avairy. The clutches were forced by individually removing eggs to an incubator to encourage Geneveve to lay. After all the fertile eggs were removed , dummy eggs were introduced and as the eggs approached hatching the dummies were removed and replaced by the fertile eggs.

Geneveve has not been flown or hunted for 3 years now. But most weekends this winter I removed Padddy, re-trained, flew and hunted him, returning him to Geneveve afterwards. Peter has now put his foot down, and Paddy is back in with Geneveve permently until this year's breeding and rearing season is over.
Last weekend, we chatted about putting 3 or 4 webcams in the avairy and close to the nest ledge. So that we can produce a daily highlights video blog, as the their courting, mating, laying, hatching and rearing progresses this year.
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kaz · Posted: Thu Mar 08, 2007 10:34 pm Post subject:

The web cams would be great.

Pheasant Plucker · Posted: Fri Mar 09, 2007 12:27 pm Post subject:

heres a photo of one of my breeding pairs of Peregrines taken yesterday.

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Pheasant Plucker · Posted: Fri Mar 09, 2007 12:36 pm Post subject:

And heres a couple of photos of my breeding pair of Merlins plus my breeding my breeding pair Aplamados falcons.

Aplamados.

Merlins
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