It is a fairly common practice for falconers to use dogs to find and flush birds that are then taken in the air by their hawks. Wilson Cady
Skamania County, WA


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From: dave templeton <crazydave65 at gmail.com>
To: Tweeters <tweeters at u.washington.edu>
Subject: [Tweeters] re: raptors 'working' w/ humans to catch prey
Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2012 15:22:33 -0800

the head gardner/farmer/whatever-he's-called at camp korey (at the time of the telling, it was still nestle's training center -- king county, washington) told me several years ago one of the redtails used to hang around whenever he got the tractor and mower out to cut the field across carnation farm road from the hq bldgs, sometimes even landing on the mower while it was being towed.&#65533; the first time he scared up a frog the bird caught it and after a taste threw it away.&#65533; eventually, tho, it decided frog legs weren't all that bad and bagged them along w/ anything else that was scared up.

regards,

t
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dave templeton
fall city, wa

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