Went trapping today. Its my birthday so it was my birthday present ( as well as a new freezer so i can keep all my hawk food in it without the kids complaining) , the plan is to bring back a Tericel Redtail hawk. We headed north on hignway 75 past McAlester and ended up on highway 69. The number of Redtails dramatically increased past McAlester. We spotted a number of hags but eventually found a passage. We bumped her of the trap the first time backed off and she went down on a second trap. The first time she landed on the trap she was able to lift the 2.5lb trap, so basically her own body weight. She had massive feet, ideal for squirrel hawking. She was almost a direct replica of Zoie in size, weight and appearance. We weighed her in at 1060 grams. Her strength was really impressive. My wife and Steve were surprised i passed her up. I think if this had been last year i would have definitely kept her.
Steve was tempted by her but she was about 150 grams to light for what he wanted and 100 grams more than i wanted so we released her back into the wild for her only to fly back to the pole we called her in from.
The rest of the day we spent finding poles that might be useful for later on in the season. definitely worth going back to in a few weeks. The heat then got to 104f, way to hot to safely trap so we called it a day
Interesting to note the two main routes in Oklahoma are down through the panhandle and Hackerberry flats and then down from Tulsa to Broken Bow. I haven't paid much attention to the Central flyway region info before now but this affects allot of things and not just falconry but all water fowl hunting.
The
council decides bag limits for ducks geese and other water fowl hunting as well as permits for peregrine take. This route starts in Canada and moves down though the central plains including Dekota, Kansas, Oklahoma and Texas to name just a few.
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