My coachwhip snakes double clutched every year but let us stick to birds and books. In the falconry community they ask how do you do that. I very carefully explain and show the so called experts but academia as in you case gets in the way (books) I am fighting books. I have falcons that will hunt in a focused fashion for 4 or more hours, unheard of in the falconry community and catch game one after the other. I can catch four head of game back to back and I never loose birds. Why because it is what they do in the wild.

The “Experts” rationalize my success it’s a fluke, its genetics, its whatever! The problem they have is, I can do it every time and I never loose a bird. I trained 8 birds last year so I have a good base line. I sent a trained first year falcon to south Dakota and the guy calls me and explained that she killed 3 sage grouse in three days and never flew under 1,500 feet high, no weight control whatsoever! His comment was “she makes the hardest quarry in the world look simple“!

Why? The falcons want to hunt (see a parallel?) They like to hunt (see a parallel?) They know how to hunt (see a parallel) I work on the relationship on there normal down time I am the coyote or deer that spooks up game while they are flying. In the Galapagos the hawks follow tourists because they are scaring up game, very basic very simple.

Everyone wants to (Train) something that already know what to do just gain its confidence and work to consistently put game up under your bird and follow the Falcons natural developmental progression. Let it get real hungry like an immature falcon learning the ropes and then as it earns the weight let it keep it how many haggard falcons have been trapped thin?

The second misconception is that they will fly off, why should they, you saw how comfortable my chamber raised male was lying on the bed enjoying my company. The first fundamental flaw is the improper use of the lure. In all the books it is the first lesson (worst mistake possible) puts the focus on the falconer where should the focus be? On the sky and on game. My very last lesson is the lure.

Back to academia I have had this bottled up for years and saw a parallel to our quandary since I started reading your posts so when you talk it is if you are playing music to my ears, I soak it up and fully understand what you are saying. I trace my problem to people who were put on a Pedi-stool because of their stature or ability to write a book. Because everyone has been doing it the other way for years and I break from tradition. In my case I am fighting books and 2000 years of tradition but the first falconers were like the tourists on Galapagos the ancient man who was befriended by a falcon. He was scaring game he could not catch, the falcon or hawk caught the game. He waited his turn and took the leftovers (in my case fair trade for the quarry). The next day he looked up to his old friend the falcon waiting for him to spook something and falconry was born.

I have experts from all over the world coming to watch my birds fly, they ask questions and the books are unchanged. (see a parallel)? There I feel better now! LOL
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