Saturday, 22 September 2012
It’s one of those most glorious of mornings, and my
favourite. Cold but not bitterly, a smattering of frost on the longer grasses,
an almost cloudless sky with vivid sunshine and quiet, even the traffic noise
which we do get even though the motorway is four miles away, is dim. The leaves
are just turning and we are starting to hear autumn bird calls, the plinking of
blackbirds – which my Sparrowhawk is fascinated by! The wild Hobby’s are
fledged and playing around us, and chasing the house martins, who will be gone
by the time we get back. In fact just the sort of day that makes you not want
to get up at 1.00am tomorrow morning to catch a 2.00am bus to Heathrow!! Art
came cantering up for his breakfast and I have a lesson at 8.30am, he then goes
to Sam’s on Monday until we get back from India, so that is one less worry.
Holly and Ben are house sitting with the dogs, Shasta
who has a bit of a swelling on the inside of her elbow which we are assured is nothing
to worry about, is much better and now coming outside for some of the day. She
was getting very stressed being cut in all day, plus she was chewing
everything.
All the birds are doing brilliantly, we were flying
the merlin yesterday and a wild Goshawk came over which was a delight to see.
The two baby Grey Buzzard Eagles in the second clutch had to come out yesterday
as mum is on more eggs and was getting a little stressed by them. One has gone
back to Chris O’Donnell, the other Mark is going to train, so for the time
being it has gone in with Hare and Azor to grow up a little.
All the Lanners are loose now and going well, my
Indian Tawny Eagle is now called Plieadies (spelt wrong I think) and she is
amazing, I have not seen an eagle come on in such an exciting manner in a long
while, we are very very pleased with her.
Had a lesson Art this morning, which went OK, he was a
little bumptious, but as I had not ridden for about five days that is not
surprising.
Holly, Michele and I along with two Lanners have been filming this
week, long tiring and on occasion boring days, but it never fails to amaze me
what the birds will do for us. Dawn Run sat on a branch in a tree while a huge
camera on a long boom arm can up behind her and filmed the actors with her in
the foreground, and then she flew out of frame, Holly was up a step ladder and
I was out of camera shot in the distance, although she got so bored with the
whole thing that eventually she refused to do the flying bit, so Discovery took
over and was very good although she would not deal with the moving camera,
however the previous day she had been flying after a four wheeled vehicle with
another huge boom arm on the top and the camera filming her as she flew after
the car, Holly was in the car, Michele released the falcon and then did a
dramatic drop to the ground to get out of shot, and I called her in at the end –
it was amazing stuff and the birds were brilliant.
Got to finish off stuff, and get packed and so I will
write again when I get back on October 4th
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