Wet and busy

Well first things first. This summer has not been the best. I spent last Wednesday doing 3 sessions at Cameron House in the rain. Considering the conditions the birds were brilliant. I feel this summer will be one of keeping the water proofs close at hand rather than the suntan cream and shades. At the end of the day it is not a problem as there is no such thing as bad weather just the wrong clothing.

I also got bad news about the wild buzzard i had to go out and collect the other week. I left it with the vet i use to see if there was anything that could be done for it. He felt it was best if it was put to sleep. This buzzard was riding it's luck a bit. I mentioned in my previous post that it had an old injury on it's head which had left part of it's skull exposed.

Even though the weather hasn't been great we are still getting through all the bookings. At this time of the year most of the work tends to be at the centre so we don't tend to be out on the road doing anything apart from what bookings we get at Cameron House. Saying that we are out doing a corporate event this Thursday.

The benefit of being in the centre more is that it gives us more time time to fly the birds or to be more precise - fly Bob the gyr x saker. We now have him flying free. We are not asking him to fly to the lure we just allow him to fly about for a bit and then bring him in. The only problem is he is so unfit that he is struggling almost straight away but he should come good. We took him away from the centre on Sunday and allowed him to fly at a farm that we have permission to fly on. It was a bit windy but he did ok. Hopefully we can get him back out on a regular basis.

This week is looking reasonably busy with bookings on most days so it is just a normal week at Strathblane Falconry.