> 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!

Just not near as good as those bad boys who are free in your neighborhood
where, apparently on a basis regular enough for them to wait for it, you
hunt your birds where they can be attacked by wild raptors. Great!

Christine
Everett