First Free Flight

First free flight didn't go exactly to plan but we all came back safe. Shortly after this video was taken a Large female redtail decided to chase Shiloh of and there was a little bit of an aerial battle going on. Some spectacular flying but really not what i wanted for a first flight. I managed to call Shiloh down to the lure and then he was done for the day. Field response wasn't where i wanted it so we are going to bring his weight down some more. We didn't get time to catch anything but we did have 2 slips and i will say this, Shiloh is one fast little hawk.

Afterwards we took my mentors hawk out to a different field. We caught to little brown jobs.The wind had picked up by this point so we all headed back to the truck.



We headed back to the house for some beer and noticed a passage coopers hawk being chased off by crows in the field behind my house.