A big front came though today moving just about everything i had locally with the exception of one female out by Durant airport. I love watching this female she has worked out she can hunt dove, she circles 100-200 feet above and then dive bombs the dove. She'll chase for a few minutes if she doesn't connect but then starts to circle above again.
On Thursday i have to travel to Lawton, another military medical review board for latrell. On the way back we plan to trap. Hopefully we will find a male redtail hawk.
I finally got some sort of confirmation on carhawking from the Oklahoma wildlife department today.
"The "car hawking" is not a new law, it was an interpretation made by Law Enforcement prior to the NAFA meet last year and they determined that it is legal for a falconer to release a falconry bird from a vehicle"
On page 34 of the Oklahoma Hunting Guide it stated Migratory Game Bird Regulation "From or with the aid or use of a vehicle or other motor-driven land conveyance"
I know Dave Eslicker is working and in communications with the ODWC to make sure it stays this way, which makes a different form of falconry very exciting for a lot of people.
Not that i didn't trust anyone but i just wanted it in some form of writing from someone one official. I know how cops and lawyers work and unfortunately it ain't pretty...
Out of interest Lauren McGough ex president of the OFA is now back in the USA, I found an interesting article on her study of falconry in Mongolia .
You can check out the full article at Raptor Education Foundation great photos and an interesting read
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