Still sick but cat stay in any more

Well I'm still sick been stuck on steroids but the wife need some help so we took Shiloh out had 2 slips but nothing in the bag.

Also made a new hood...

There is something very therapeutic about making hoods i want to learn how to make Khan Hoods similar to the ones Ken Hooke 

Watched two hawks play tag with one of my pigeons today , it was quite spectacular with pigeon feathers flying every where. One minute nothing the next an exposure of feathers. There was two hunting together the other chased as my pigeons went in every direction. I am assuming the first carried the pigeon off. It never came back and i never found any other feathers. I am assuming it was a coopers hawk, (passage) but could have been a red Shouldered as i know we have a nesting pair near by.

HB 1249

Read Ryan's Blog a Little Mews on the Prairie on why this could be a bad thing for Oklahoma falconers.

Sick

The kids have been sick and i have been sick so not much chance to get out. Hopefully everything will change at the weekend. So all i have been doing is reenforcing the glove.

Weekend Hunt

Headed out to Norman to hunt with Bill this weekend. Bill is an urban falconer with lots of waste land. We certainly had plenty of slips but the end result was nothing in the bag. Shiloh some how managed to loose his transmitter (leg mount) bill managed to find it for me but there appears to be some damage to it so we will look into mounting or do something different.

Shiloh was coming to the fist pretty well , following wasn't that great and certainly something we will work on.

We moved to a different field and watched 3 Red Tails fighting over territory. Shiloh hunkered down in a tree and stayed there till the coast was clear. Eventually Shiloh started self hunting. We had been hunting over two hours and it was a long drive home so time to call it a day.

and we are off

I started free flying Shiloh again on Monday.

We had a good chase on a rabbit but the rabbit was faster. The aerial acrobatics amazed me as he flew through a barbed wire fence at one point to continue the chase. I pulled the lure out and we called it a day.

Yesterday we had about 4 slips on rabbits. I think for 3 of those slips it was probably the same rabbit. This is a survivor rabbit so hes going to be tricky to catch, he certainly is a very fast bunny. Shiloh is coming to the fist in the field allot better, Following on isn't so great but that will come with time. The lighter evenings are defiantly helping with it getting dark about 6.30pm so more time in the field.

My sponsor Steve Armstrong is getting ready for a trip to the Texas Canyons, He goes a couple of times a year to visit the Prairie Falcons and listen to the Sand Cranes. His Harris Hawk is up for the molt and shedding feathers like a bust feather pillow. Hopefully he''l be using the latest and greatest in technology to blog from there and send us pictures and videos of his experiences.

The aims for this week is to get Shiloh out every night and then on Saturday I'm going hunting with Bill Boni in Norman. Bills a great guy and has allot of experience and is also well published. He's currently putting together a book on Flying and Hunting Coopers Hawks , which i cant wait to read.

I will probably stop hunting Shiloh at the end of the month (March 31st) hopefully we can get a few rabbits in the bag before then. I plan to put him up for the molt and then start hunting him again in September.