Falconry

Meet Sonora, Beckett & Lima as babies in 2013! Sonora is the big female Harris hawk, Beckett is next to her and lastly is Lima, one of our female Peruvian Harris hawks – the Peruvian sub-species is smaller than usual, hence the size difference between her and Sonora! Missing from the photo is young Andes – our only male Peruvian Harris hawk – he couldn’t play nicely with the other babies so had to be sent to the naughty step!

Meet Dingle, our European Eagle Owl, and one of the founding members of the Falconry School when he was a baby in 1999. He does the least work out of all the birds we have, yet is one of the most popular!

Here is fabulous Joyce, one of our big female Harris hawks. She and her three siblings:- Swift, Stoker & Wilde, were hatched in 2011 and have been with us since they were two weeks old. Joyce is unusual in that she has 13 tail feathers, Harris hawks normally have 12.

We had great fun when trying to re-enact the scene from the film ‘Ladyhawke’, during which a hawk flies so low over a lake that the wingtips trail. Killary proved to be the master at low flying and you can see in this photo where his talons have dipped into the water. Hatched in 2005, he has one of the nicest temperaments we have ever come across.

Here is beautiful Milly, the first hawk we ever bred ourselves, she was hatched in 2007. She is one of the most dominant of all of our female Harris hawks and very often bosses the other hawks about. Her dominance is rarely challenged and, on the whole, all of the hawks (and us!) do as Milly says!

Here is Wilde, one of our male Harris hawks. He became a skilled flier very quickly when he was a young hawk, much quicker than his three siblings - he was the most adventurous and experimental with his flying by far.