Thursday was spent in the centre. This was mainly due to my car needing to go in to the garage as it was making a strange noise which seemed to be coming from 1 of the wheels. Probably hit a pot hole. The roads are a mess at the moment due to the cold winter. Some of the pot holes are not really pot holes. They are more like craters or pits. Anyway the car is fixed and I am mobile again.
On Friday I was asked to do a ring delivery. James phoned me up and asked if he could book a hawk walk and for the hawk to deliver the ring. I met James before to collect the ring and attached it Oran's (male Harris Hawks) leg. When James and his girlfriend - Hazel turned up I had Oran flying about so that Hazel wouldn't see the ring tied to Oran's leg with purple ribbon. After a quick introduction I called in Oran to Hazel's gloved hand and took the ring off Oran's leg, handed it to James who went down on 1 knee and he proposed. She said yes. She thought they were staying at Cameron House for his birthday so she didn't have a clue that he was going to propose.
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| The happy couple with Oran |
Saturday was a lot easier. I went to visit a farm which I had been given permission to fly on. I was meant to go out and look at it last week but it was raining so I couldn't get out then. On Saturday I finally made it out. There wasn't a lot out. Pele (male Harris Hawk) came close twice in catching pheasants. The flights were quite short. He didn't chase the pheasants it was more a case of him crashing into the undergrowth and trying to grab them. I didn't see all of the farm as I was a bit pushed for time so I am going to back later and hopefully see the rest of it then.
I didn't want to get back to late the centre on Saturday as I am still working with Artemis. Work and the weather has really made things difficult to keep some consistency going with her but we made some progress. She flew 30m to the glove which was great so hopefully we can keep things going forward. After thinking she wouldn't fly to the glove and I would fly her to the lure I thought I would give it another shot and she did it. I finished Saturday on a real high.
Sunday and Monday it was back to work. I had 2 Family Fun sessions on Sunday and a demonstration for a VIP group at Cameron House on Monday which went well even though it was raining a bit, they were an hour late and instead of 30 mins it was cut to 20 mins. It sometimes happens like that.
Today wasn't good though. It was 1 of those days where I find it really hard to stay motivated. The weather was the type I hate. I don't really mind the weather. I can deal with the cold - well a dry cold but I hate and find it very hard to deal with what happened today which was hail and sleet showers. When it is like that you are just going to get wet and cold and I find it hard to stay motivated. I can't fly any of the birds when the weather is like that. It is just a case of cleaning the centre and feeding everything and going home. On the plus we don't tend to get to many days like that.
While today was a bit of an early finish on the whole I have noticed that working day is starting to get a bit longer now as the days are getting a bit longer. That's they way it goes. Mid winter my day usually finishes about 4pm but as the days get longer so does the working day so by mid summer it is about 7pm when I finish more often than not. At the moment I am finding that I am now finishing closer to 5pm rather than 4pm. I have also noticed that the snow drops are coming through but they have not started to flower yet.
I will finish off this weeks entry with a picture my friend Jim took of me with 1 of his falcons after it caught duck when we flying it last week
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