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Friday, April 27th, 2012
After many week of manning, finally after 2 week, the new crested goshawk finally begin to jump to fist and later fly to fist. For me I always manning hawks inside the house after work (since I am not a full time bird trainer or falconer) so I only able to spent time about 1 [...]
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Saturday, April 14th, 2012
If you follow my blog, few month back I get a Chinese Sparrowhawk from a friend (actually I am helping him to train the bird).. It was few month back… and I didn’t really train him much, just manning him…recently after I manned the new crested goshawk, I found that the chinese sparrowhawk become calmer!! [...]
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Wednesday, April 4th, 2012
After 9 days of manning finally the female crested goshawk jump to my fist. Since I got her, I did expect that it will take longer time to train her since I think she is a ‘handfeed bird’… Luckily she is not very vocal and seem like she is not food imprint or inheritage any [...]
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Saturday, March 31st, 2012
Last week a friend, send a young female crested goshawk to me to train… the bird is still very young… my friends just bought it from someone… and the birds somehow seem like not really know how to eat yet!!! (She didnt grap the food with the feed… I guess the previous owner only give [...]
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Friday, October 7th, 2011
I have the privilege of training 3 different South East Asian Crested Goshawk this year. All of the hawk is not belong to me but belong to some other falconer friends. First hawk is an adult female passage bird. She was adult and have very bad condition when my friend get her (from some keeper [...]
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Thursday, February 4th, 2010
I somehow manage to get in touch with someone that can offer me passage African Hawk Eagle… I have made the order and now waiting for the CITES and all the necessary document. Hopefully everthing is fine and I can get a good quality bird soonest… Here is some information about african hawk eagle in [...]
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Saturday, November 14th, 2009
Last night my sparrow hawk come to fist again (after 2 days he refuse to come…only jump to fist if it is very near)… Last night, it fly to fist from about a meter space. not too bad, and I think it is a good improvement, after nearly 2 week I have it. Overall, the [...]
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Sunday, November 8th, 2009
Finally yesterday I pick up my perch… need some adjustment because the blacksmith didn’t know what I want actually… but the result is not too bad. I buy some rope to wrap it so my sparrow can perch on the ‘rope’. Here below is the photo of the bow perch. another angle:
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Friday, November 6th, 2009
Today I went to a local blacksmith and ask him to make a bow perch for me… I should be able to get it maybe tomorrow or the day after. Not sure how it will turn out but hopefully it is good. Will post the photo later on.
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Friday, November 6th, 2009
Starting yesterday, I handfeed the sparrow hawk. I let him feed from my hand instead of from the glove. I think this will make him more confident with my hand and not feel nervous whenever I touch him. He is doing better today, still bath away, but lesser. since I am not work today, I [...]
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