You have to remember that our birds get to hunt just like a wild bird. Even
better, is that if our sharpy or merlin is down on a kill, and some big bad
boy like a redtail or adult male or female cooper's comes in to take our
bird for it's own meal, we're there to stop that from happening. If they're
grabbed, we will look like idiots in a million years to get our bird back.
Yelling and screaming, clapping hands and whistling, running around near
houses jumping around trying to get our poor bird back. Falconry birds have
it very good!



Blake Iverson





>From: "Dianna Moore" <dlmoor2 at coastaccess.com>
>Reply-To: dlmoor2 at coastaccess.com
>To: "Tweeters" <Tweeters at u.washington.edu>
>Subject: re: wild falcons
>Date: Sun, 8 Dec 2002 19:45:20 -0800
>
>Hey Tweets:
>
>Gene Hunn said, "I don't object to falconry per se, just to the harvest of
>wild birds for that purpose."
>
>Thanks Gene....my sentiments exactly. I know it is probably considered
>anthropomorphic, but capturing a wild creature and forcing it to our will
>seems....well...barbaric! Humans are supposed to be ascending the ladder of
>civilized behavior, and imprisoning something so wild as a bird that hunts
>all of the sky just doesn't seem right to me.
>
>Dianna Moore
>Ocean Shores, Wa.
>dlmoor2 at coastaccess.com


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