Time flies

It's been three weeks since my last post and i really cant believe how fast the time has gone. I've been out trapping pretty much every night and weekend. I have pretty much caught 99.9 percent of all the Hag(adult birds) in southern Oklahoma. I did catch one passage that weighed in at 1200 grams (40oz) however it turned out to have avian pox. Everything had to be disinfected after releaseing the passage redtail back to the wild. for those that don't know Avian pox can be deadly and is highly contagious. Birds can survive it but really i don't need the vet bills or another season of a sick and hawk.

The difference between male , female, kinders, harlins and dark morph light morph has been interesting to see and its been worth trapping every bird we have seen just to see the differences.

I am also in the middle of reading "Training the Short-Winged Hawk" so between reading various books and trapping its been a busy time.

I was hoping to go to the OFA field meet this weekend but life had other things planed and it sucks that i cant go, i was really hoping to catch up with some other very experienced falconers.

I have still have 4 days off work with a house photo shoot on Saturday morning but hopefully come Tuesday we will have one passage male redtail hawk.