{"id":45555,"date":"2023-01-17T00:18:00","date_gmt":"2023-01-17T07:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/drfumblefinger.com\/?p=45555"},"modified":"2023-01-01T20:39:59","modified_gmt":"2023-01-02T03:39:59","slug":"focusing-on-hawks-and-falcons-fairbanks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/drfumblefinger.com\/blog\/2023\/01\/focusing-on-hawks-and-falcons-fairbanks\/","title":{"rendered":"Focusing on Hawks and Falcons, Fairbanks"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n

While visiting Creamer’s Field Migratory Waterfowl Refuge<\/a><\/strong> we attended a short talk and demonstration on hawks and falconry given by two of the local residents.  They had their beautiful birds on hand.  I believe the bird shown above is a red-tailed hawk, although I’m not 100% sure about that.<\/p>\n

The birds were hooded and carried on thick leather gloves, as expected.  The owner of the hawk gave us a display of how the hawk flies and tries to catch prey while in flight. <\/p>\n

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(Releasing the hawk, Fairbanks)<\/em><\/figcaption>\n<\/figure>\n

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Once unhooded and untethered, the hawk took to the air and began soaring, elegant and graceful.  A leather decoy was whipped about and the hawk repeatedly caught it.<\/p>\n

The display ended when a bald eagle (seen below) approached our demonstration.  Bald eagles kill hawks, so our demo bird was called back and rehooded.  But it still was a memorable and impressive demonstration.<\/p>\n

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