Friday 17 August 2012
It’s been hectic!!! The weather has been so damn
variable it’s hard to know where the hell we are!!! We lost a big branch of the
Eucalyptus tree in the Hawk Walk, luckily after everyone had left, so David
Kenworthy came over immediately and we took down a number of other branches and
the whole tree will have to come down in the winter, still it will make for
very aromatic fire wood in the future. We dragged all the branches away to the
fire the next morning, the dogs sort of helped, although I am not sure that
help was the right word.
We have given up on the Hobby, I am about to write to
AHVLA which my computer insists is actually HALVA!! And tell them that we in
our expert opinion consider that this bird is not releasable, it will not
survive in the wild, and so we are leaving the decision as to what to do with
it to them. We do not particularly want to keep it however we are prepared to
give it a home for life, but they may not agree and may want us to kill it –
which we are not prepared to do, so if that is what AHVLA and JNCC want, we
will give it to them and they can kill it – that should make for an interesting
conversation!!
All the young
birds are coming along nicely, the awful weather is slowing things up a little,
but we are moving forward. Mark has just got the young Aplomado Falcon out to
start training, it is a male and stunning to look at!! The American Kestrel is
a male and I am told really good at killing the carpet!! Adam and I pulled out
four wheel barrows of stinging nettles from the other side of Barn 1, I am
still itching a little, but I am told the stings are really good for
arthritis!! I hope so as they are mean bloody nettles and always get you back
as you pull them out.
The Falconry
Weekend is looking like it will be a great success, I just pray for good
weather. We have had a ton of late bookings, and I finalised on the tentage
today. We have three spare spaces and that is it!! All the people coming to
demonstrate or give seminars are on track and it really should be a wonderful
weekend. The atmosphere here is always fun and it adds to anything that we put
on. I am looking forward to it.
Then the next
thing is Simon and I go to India for the Incubation workshop, which will be
hard work, but worth it and then I think we go on to Nepal to see what is going
on there with the Vulture Programme. This autumn is going to be busy!!
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