Experience in management is something that improves with time, I prefer a high perch on the weathering lawn and use a drum perch within the overnight mews. Goshawks, like all birds can be difficult to manage, but sometimes with a couple of very simple alterations and care, you can make a big difference.

@@goshawker1 thankyou very much for your reply I’ve only just got into falconry spent a year researching and my friend helps me. Always had lurchers but find this hawk game fascinating. Keep up the good work 👍

@user-rp7ob9qf7c thanks for your support, I hope you subscribed. Everyone starts somewhere and you never stop learning, enjoy, soak up information and seek great sport. 👍

Thanks for your comment 😄

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Thanks Alan 👍

Have to agree OSH, the thought of creating something proficient from a raw material by offering experiences designed to educate a hawk towards positive results.... its a very addictive hobby. This young hawk was bred by a friend who was flying her until he suffered knee injury. Now another friend has guided her through the end of the season and she's progressed nicely.

Are they your dogs flushing them?

@alisontaylor7511 The pointer 'Ruby' is owned by my friend Ian who is flying the hawk, she's a great staff member steady little worker and goshawks are traditionally flown over pointers.

Thanks for your comments and support, much appreciated 👍

Pleased you enjoyed Chris 👍

Thanks Paul, appreciate your comment. 👍

Thanks for your comments Chris, appreciated 👍

Thanks TNT, keeping them white is the hard part, but they are certainly a lot easier to see on the footage than the more typical coloured goshawk. They have become a lot more common in the UK over the last 10 years.

Thanks John, I guess it's a generational thing, but you'll be pleased to know I'm about out of cheesey 80's classic's. What would you like to hear then?

Well I thought for one that the choice of song was perfect and made the video an all round joy,plus it is definitely a song and not music

Thanks Dave, clean birds are for the showmen not the hunting, keeping her in good feather is my responsibility, keeping her clean..... impossible 🫣

Thanks for your comments, pleased you enjoyed 👍

Thanks again OSH, nice comments!! 👍

Thanks for your comments, good luck with your first hawk. 👍

Thanks mate. Am based in Northumberland aswell keep videos coming class watching bird on. All best 2024

Her colour helps pick her out at distance, typical goshawk colouration was always a lot harder to track. 👍

Thanks Andreas 👍

Super záběry

The videos are taken within the UK, specifically Northumberland. This goshawk "The Witch" is a captive bred bird.

The hawking ground makes the footage and the hawk makes the action 🎬, I consider myself very lucky to have both 👍!! Thanks again OSH 👌

Thanks, glad you enjoyed !

She.... The Witch 🧙‍♀️ !! Thanks for the comment Mick. 👍

Thanks for the comment mickwalsh8136, really appreciated 👍

Thank you for the positive comments, oldschoolhawking8191, pleased you enjoy the videos and appreciate your inputs!! 👍😁

Thanks for the comments! She's starts the season around 1320 grams, currently flying at 1370 grams and will rise a little further into January.

@@goshawker1 nice weight as well. Well done.

Albidus goshawk - flown in the UK

Thanks for your answer. I don't know a word "albidus" but I take it as albino, which is what I thought, as it shows signs of being a Northern Goshawk of Europe. Anyway, it isn't an (Australian) White Goshawk, which is a different species, a normal colour form and not an albino. @@goshawker1

@@philipveerman7526 She's not an albino. Albidus is a subspecies of the northern goshawk, originating from the most northern areas of their coverage, with a stronghold in Kamchatka. Certainly not the Australian type or in Australia and predominantly nicknamed white goshawk in a simple way for those people searching for that type within the falconry world. Hope that helps explain.

Thanks for your comments. I understand the first points you make (though I did not know that). The Australian White Goshawk can also be called the white morph of the Grey Goshawk (but that is a long name) so we tend to just say white or grey according to what it is. It is not a species that people see often. They exist together in some parts and do interbreed. Falconry is not legal in Australia. It is only done by very few people in order to rehabilitate or care for raptors that are injured or whatever, in training for release or keeping alive if not releasable or for a few specialised purposes (like falcons to shoo birds away from airports). So falconry is not legally available in Australia for sport or entertainment or hunting. . @@goshawker1

Thanks OSH, pleased you enjoyed it. 👍

Best decade 😊

It's all a balance of multiple aspects I guess, but provided all controllable aspects are delivered and influenced aspects are as influenced as possible, then its just a fitness program delivered by regular hunting and hunting substitutes like an electric drag lure. Thanks for your compliment, she's only just starting to achieve a decent fitness now.

A little later than normal OSH, but we are catching up with things now. Thanks for your comments....👍

She's just starting her 3rd season, we are a little later than normal and are about 2 to 3 weeks behind schedule.