coping George's beak is my job this week. Thanks for this video and the time you showed me how on George a few years ago. Forever grateful.

Great video Dave the tip of straightening the birds leg to loosen their grip is one that I haven’t hear before and seem way easy the pulling the toes out individually

I worked with guard dogs for a bit... one of them liked to 'play catch' with a stone, or a stick, throwing it back to you... I noticed, one evening, that the dog stopped looking at the stone, and started following my hand... Hmmmm... no more play! Bodx language... sounds like that Hawk looking at you in a special way!

We hope your injury heals well, that certainly made me think, you have a personal nurse so you'll be ok . I experienced twice the power and the lightning speed of the talon last season, picking up dropped pieces of food ,as I replaced it back to my glove the hawk footed my thumb, his talons with ease went to the bone, squeezing deeper as he eat, only when he had eaten the chicken did he release, this happened twice before I learnt, lol. Always good to listen to experience, that's why your advice is gold I'm in a situation with the beak on mine, I do hood and snip the end on occasions, then give him a long rabbit bone stripped of meat knore on , this has helped but soon I will need to attempt a little reshaping I'm sure. Always a pleasure, good luck.

Excellent video again Dave. Your honesty and candour with regards to mistakes made is very refreshing. Lets face it we have all made mistakes, however, we never like to admit to them. Which is a shame as so much can be learnt and passed on from them. As someone else has posted, complacency is something to guard against, it has caught me out a few times over the years. Great work Dave.

Very good information as always 👌

Great tips . Especially emergency leg straightening thanks dave

Love thise videos and i always learn something, like how honest you are about mistakes etc you have made... Most people on social media make out they have never made mistakes, keep them coming very good educational videos

Many thanks Dave for re- emphasising these tips 👍 It's something that is often forgotten as we become to should I say 'familiar and often complacent ' in what we do with our birds. Sometimes a video like this helps to make us think again and put back some thought. Keep up the amazing work and I hope to pop over to Icarous falconry Centre soon. As I'm only down the road. ( well a a bit of a walk as no buses go near there from Northampton)

Fair play on owning up to getting caught by the Harris. So easy to forget just how much damage any BOP can do. Seen many people moaning about Harris hawks getting aggressive around the mews/loft. 99% is food related.

The pigeons use the flat roof for beak trimming and budgies use cuttlefish

personally I've only had aggression issue with one bird and that was a passage redtail which I ended up releasing back to wild after 2 years instead of the 5 years I had planned on. learning to read your hawk is perhaps one of the most over looked falconry skills out there. Easier when you only keep one bird at a time. Though I might have to pick up a second bird to go with my harris , as you say they are social and pack birds and I'm told they should be kept as such.

Спасибо большое за ваш труд!!

Would you be able to make a video on how you cast your hawk? I have a casting jacket but how would you get her from on the glove to controlling her feet and wrapping her up?

A quick question about feeding when the hawk comes to your call? Is it necessary, or even advisable, to feed it each and every time it comes to the glove? It seems like it could be seen by the bird as 'reward' for just sitting in a tree? About beak 'self-trimming': I'm guessing that, in nature, the birds are biting into bones and tendons, even feathers, while they probably get mostly 'meat' when being fed in captivity?? Thanks for always-interesting videos!

Brilliant video as always Dave. Quick question, at what age do harris hawks breed successfully please ?

I fly my Harris at the weeked and twice in the week lamping. The days I can’t fly her I weigh her, take her back to the mews and let go of her to some chicks on her shelf. What is the best way to feed her on the non flying days? At the weekend I fly her with 1-3 extra people and different each time. Shall I not worry about her becoming aggressive to others?

Cuttlefish for beak left in cage ?