Wednesday, November 24, 2010

Company and Compulsion

I took Willow to the local park today. I need the space to fly her and a few less trees. She weighed in at 1100 grams again. I staked out 80 feet of creance and we started our training session. About half way through we both here this scream, a redtail hag was telling us both to piss off and leave the area, willows wings came down and into the defencive posturing that stressed redtails take. The hag soon bugged out after about 3 minutes and we continued. She continues to fly back to her perch after her tidbit which for some reason amuses me. I always get the feeling its "hurry up and i get another treat" going through her head. We ended the session on the lure at 80 feet and then a good trade of to a tidbit on the glove from the lure. One thing i must remember is to be careful where i throw the lure because when you go to trade off and are sitting on the lure, a fire ants nest can erupt from beneath your ass and the over desiring compulsion to immediately stand up very fast can be over whelming.

It's amazing how much she has changed since introducing the lure, I'm actually starting to enjoy this and it doesn't seem like such hard work.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

LOL! Red ants in the pants are no good! Ha!

Glad to see that Willow is doing well in her training. I don't know much, if anything, about birds but she seems like a smart one to me!