![\"\"](\"http:\/\/alexeames.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/DSCN2455cropped.jpg\" "\\"DSCN2455cropped_01\\"")
<\/a>Peregrine Falcon<\/p><\/div><\/p>\n
As usual, all images are clickable for higher resolution ones. (Although top resolution are not published, they are available on request).<\/p>\n
I got a few shots, but a lot of them were very samey from last time, and to be honest, not quite as good. One of the best was the kestrel, which was outside this time. Last time it was inside because it was cold.<\/p>\n
<\/a>Kestrel<\/p><\/div>\n
I got to fly this Harris Hawk, Tomek was offered, but didn’t fancy it (probably because the plonker flew it right over his head just before – wish people would be more sensible with children).
\n
<\/a>Harris Hawk<\/p><\/div><\/p>\n
Up close, Harris Hawks are quite amazing. They’re not that special to look at from a distance though. The falconer said you can train a Harris Hawk in a week.
\n
<\/a>Harris Hawk, up close<\/p><\/div><\/p>\n
This one wasn’t out last time either. Interesting fellow.
\n
<\/a>Yellow-billed Kite<\/p><\/div><\/p>\n
This Saker was stood on his perch flapping. Thought I’d take a shot.
\n
<\/a>Saker Falcon<\/p><\/div><\/p>\n
Leah the Lanner Falcon was flying free this time. Last time she was on a line.
\n
<\/a>Leah - Lanner Falcon<\/p><\/div><\/p>\n
The Caracaras were noisy and most of the time they seemed to prefer to walk.
\n
<\/a>Caracara from the Falklands<\/p><\/div><\/p>\n
My AF still can’t keep up with birds in flight, but this was about the best flying shot I managed.
\n
<\/a>Matabele the Bateleur Eagle<\/p><\/div><\/p>\n
They seemed to have two Gyr-Saker falcons today
\n
<\/a>Gyr-Saker Falcon<\/p><\/div><\/p>\n
<\/a>Desmond the ??? owl.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Well, a few weeks ago I said I’d like to take my son to the cotswold falconry centre. He had a school open day on Saturday, so they were all given the day off on Monday. It was a nice day, so we decided it would be a good day to visit. So we loaded […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/alexeames.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/alexeames.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/alexeames.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/alexeames.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/alexeames.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=232"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/alexeames.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/alexeames.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/alexeames.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/alexeames.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}