Another week gone

This year is racing past. Hard to believe that we in August already.

The weeks just fly by the time cleaning - pens, aviaries and hutches, feeding birds and ferrets, answering phones and replying to emails it is time to fly any birds that need to be flown. Then there are the bookings which everything needs to be worked round.

The big event last week was the corporate event over looking Balloch. This was to be Duffy the Bengal Eagle Owls first corporate event. It was being held in a lovely location on a hill over looking Balloch and Loch Lomond. The down side was 1 of the events was clay pigeon shooting and Duffy was very worried by the noise of the shot guns. I had brought Lobey as well to give myself a bit of cover in case Duffy would not fly. When Duffy first heard the shot guns he was very worried but as the event went on he became more and more confident. I didn't use him in first group but he did the next 2 sessions and didn't seemed bothered by the shot guns at all by the end of the day. Brel the Harris Hawk was his usual brilliant self with nothing bothering him and  flying to everyone . We got some good feed back at the end of the event which is always great to hear.

I had a chance to speak to the vet about the wild buzzard and why it had to be put to sleep. He told me that when they x rayed it they could see that it had broken it's back and this had resulted in nerve damage. I will try and put a copy of the x ray on the blog but it is very difficult to see the break.






Today we had an exciting incident at Cameron house. We had a hawk walk and i was out on the front lawn with a family of  4. Mardy a Harris Hawk was flying about the trees and coming into the glove when called. Everything was going great. Mardy was being perfect. Long sweeping flights into the glove and looking great. I was explaining something to the family and i see Mardy out of the corner of my eye flying down between the trees and crashing in. I knew straight away he caught something. I ran over to see what he had caught to find it was a duck. Not good as they are not  in season at the moment. Thankfully i was able to get Mardy off the duck and release it back on to Loch Lomond. It swam away quickly quacking at me. I am not sure if it was  thanking me or telling what for