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Title: Hi from west lothian
Post by: flash on June 12, 2011, 10:52:49 pm: Hi all my wife and myself have just bought 8.5 acres in west lothian and im not altogether sure what to do with it i have a agricultural background and i love falconry we have quite a few animals hence the reason for bigger premises
3 falcons
4 cats
3 dogs (2 brittanys technically and a english pointerx)
4 ferrets
Title: Re: Hi from west lothian
Post by: SallyintNorth on June 12, 2011, 11:26:19 pm: Hello flash and welcome from north Cumbria :wave:

What falcons do you have and how do you use them?
Title: Re: Hi from west lothian
Post by: flash on June 12, 2011, 11:35:30 pm: Hi sally
My own falcons are a male (tiercel) peregrine and a female peregrine they hunt game mostly partridge phesant but we get the occasional duck to everything we catch we eat or is eaten by one of the other animals we put out food for phesants and partridge and give them dusting areas and we do a little predator control too so that they thrive i have also reintroduced grey partridge in some areas and they are now breeding

i fly 2 falcons and a hawk for pest control we use them as a deterent for keeping birds away from certian areas
Title: Re: Hi from west lothian
Post by: flash on June 12, 2011, 11:52:54 pm: this is jedi about two weeks ago he is now fully feathered and ruling the place he will be used for work to deter sea gulls
(http://i327.photobucket.com/albums/k453/scitzho/SDC12051.jpg)

dot is a game hawk she is a year old
(http://i327.photobucket.com/albums/k453/scitzho/DSC_1739.jpg)

this is alfie he is 3 as is pickles my brittany we use him to locate game birds for my falcons to catch he has just sired a litter that we will take a pup from
(http://i327.photobucket.com/albums/k453/scitzho/DSC_0376.jpg)
Title: Re: Hi from west lothian
Post by: SallyintNorth on June 13, 2011, 08:11:59 am: Beautiful pics - I love the nose-to-beak shot!
Title: Re: Hi from west lothian
Post by: Rosemary on June 13, 2011, 09:14:14 am: Hi and welcome from damp Carnoustie :wave:

What's the dog got round its neck and the bird on its back?
Title: Re: Hi from west lothian
Post by: doganjo on June 13, 2011, 09:37:40 am: Quote from: Rosemary on June 13, 2011, 09:14:14 am
Hi and welcome from damp Carnoustie :wave:

What's the dog got round its neck and the bird on its back?
Those are remote transmitters - if the hawk goes 'fly about' she can still be traced. The handler carries a recever. Pickles' one is probably the same. Flash is on our Brittany forum too. Got some super photos.
Title: Re: Hi from west lothian
Post by: flash on June 14, 2011, 10:19:45 pm: We have to get in the farm asap as jedi is wrecking the place and we have a new puppy ariving in 7 weeks pickles(my brittany) baby
Title: Re: Hi from west lothian
Post by: ballingall on June 14, 2011, 11:05:06 pm: Hi Flash,

from just outside West Lothian! Whereabouts is your new place? My sister lives in West Lothian, and would love to move to someplace with a bit of land, but is waiting until her house sells..... It's going slowly!

Beth
Title: Re: Hi from west lothian
Post by: lill on June 15, 2011, 12:24:54 pm: hi flash,
welcome from Bathgate :wave: :wave:
Title: Re: Hi from west lothian
Post by: flash on June 18, 2011, 05:13:40 pm: Thanks for all the kind comments on my pics the small holding is just outside broxburn we realy need to move now the house is getting crazy with jedi fledging we dont have a pen for him yet as i dont see the point in building one till we move (next friday i hope)
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Post by: Sandy on June 18, 2011, 05:45:38 pm: Beautiful photos!! Welcome :wave:
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Post by: faith0504 on June 18, 2011, 06:07:30 pm: hi and welcome from moray, im loving the pictures :wave:
Title: Re: Hi from west lothian
Post by: tazbabe on June 18, 2011, 10:39:15 pm: hiya, welcome in!