A Day In The Life Of A FALCONER | falconry training | flying a bird of prey | flying an owl 

Me too! Hopefully lots of people will go over and have a look at your work

Hi I've just found your channel this morning and have to say I'm hooked your awesome and your birds and dogs are gorgeous keep up the awesome work :)

Thank you I really appreciate that! Lots more stuff is planned!

@@MercerFalconry I cannot wait to see what you have in store

Totally. Music not needed.

Thank you very much I really appreciate your comment, he is an Eurasian eagle owl and yes he is an imprint, we got him at a week old!

Every bird isn’t a girl

He’s very helpful! 😁

Great, I’m very happy you like the video, hopefully a new video will go up later this week!

Thank you, I agree it all important stuff people need to consider before getting into it!

Thank you, I hope you are doing well too!

It’s not going anywhere! I hope you enjoy it when you get round to it

Thank you, I will put a link to your business in one of the videos if you like!

Thanks a lot! I am very lucky!! 😁

Thank you very much, both me and Charmaine appreciate it, I would like to visit lots of falconry places around the world so I will have to add Austria to the list! Happy you enjoyed the video 😁

Thank you, I thought about taking those bits out but then thought it would be better to show people that these animals can be very unpredictable some times

Great, thank you very much. Half of my birds are moulting too but I need some of them for displays so my Harris hawk doesn’t get the luxury of a moulting holiday!

@@MercerFalconry interesting topic falconry so many different needs, I would love to work more with birds, love those Owls by the way . Stay safe, and I hope your season is a good one.

Excellent, thank you very much, I’m happy you like the channel!

Well the simple answer is that I just don’t go on holiday 😂

Thank you I really appreciate that 😁

Thank you, it depends how heavy the rain is or how strong the wind is, some birds fly in a small amount of rain and some just take the day off and the same goes for the wind

Wow thank you very much, I really appreciate that!!! What country are you in?

@@MercerFalconry I'm from Greece

Excellent, how very exciting that it is legal again for you to take part!

It feels amazing and I want to learn how to properly take care of those beautiful animals, train them correctly and do falconry with them. That's why I was so excited to found your channel. So again thank you for making these videos they are very helpful and interesting.

I’m very happy to have helped, I’ll keep the videos coming! 😁

He’s a Eurasian Eagle Owl, the Great horned owl is very similar but found in America and a little more of grey colour than brown

Thank you 😁

And I made this on a quiet day too!!!!! Thank you anyway 😁

@@MercerFalconry 🤣 yeah some days are better than others!

Annoyingly half my birds are moulting so I could only film the 4 flying

@@MercerFalconry yeah a good 70% of our burds are moulting 🙃

Do you fly any through the moult?

Thank you 😁

Unfortunately the bag is no longer available to buy, I got it from westweald falconry online

I’m in the process of filming it, it’s a very exciting video that I can’t wait to show everyone, going to take a couple more weeks of filming so keep an eye out!

For me it’s is my full time job, it can be very difficult to own a bird of prey with a standard 9 to 5 job you have to go to but it is possible!

I’m not sure I understand what you mean about spiral screen? Are you talking about the mesh on the front of the aviaries?

@@MercerFalconry Yes, the mesh on the front of the aviaries. You sure have a nice setup. I saw this screening and the way it is attached by metal rods at the zoo. It is such a clean installation. Probably expensive, but I only have about 24'x12' to deal with. Thanks so much.

I got mine from a couple friends who have a falconry equipment shop so I’m not sure where they got it but it’s called Zoo Mesh, a few companies make it, have a look at a company called ClearMesh, hope that helps!

That’s not a question I can safely answer as every bird is individual and all weigh differently, what might be a normal weight for my female Harris hawk could be way too light or heavy for yours

I weigh them so i can keep track of their health and fitness. also birds of prey will only fly for food so i have to keep them around a certain weight or they will just sit in a grumpy mood

Thanks 😁

It’s a piece of shin beef from the butcher, also I have never weighed the food I feed any of my birds, every bird is different so I couldn’t say how many grams to feed a Harris hawk as they will all require a different ammount

@@MercerFalconry i understand, as i saw un tour vid for tour Harris Is 1 Babe chiken AND a couple of Shin beef right? Always in the.morning AND 1 Time pero day? Thanks

Sorry for muy english un from Argentina

No not at all

Sorry there is not much I can do for it now, I was still learning how to edit when I made this, the editing is better now! 😁

@@MercerFalconry Just trying to be constructive!, the filming is excellent and the content! Keep uptrend good work!

sorry keep up the good work!

No need to apologise, I appreciate the feedback!!!

I havnt watched the video in a while so can’t remember the order but the smaller owl is a dark breasted barn owl and the bigger owl is a Eurasian eagle owl

@@MercerFalconry yeah it was the barn owl. I looked it up after I asked lol. Thanks for the reply

I should hope so!

Thank you, have fun on your exciting new journey! 😄

@@MercerFalconry Totally loving it 😍

I have hunted in the past but now all of my birds are just used for displays so while falconry techniques are used to train them what I do is not technically falconry

The yolk is very nutrient dense but a lot of it is cholesterol. I understand what you are saying but I don’t really think you can compare what a person eats to what a bird of prey eats, some of my birds have less than 100g of food per day so if I left the yolk in it could be making up to 20% of their diet and I just don’t think that’s healthy long term. Yes it provides the chick with its first day of food but again, what a day old chicken requires is very different to what a hawk requires, especially my birds who are worked hard and do not need to be carrying around a load of fat. It’s also just incredibly messy with the birds, it ends up all over their feathers and then if they don’t bath in time it goes hard and sticky on them, and makes a right mess of my glove! There are many health benefits to a person eating egg yolk, but I don’t think that outweighs the downsides when it comes to birds of prey. Thanks for the comment though, it’s always very interesting to hear other opinions! 😁

@@MercerFalconry I understand it's messy in liquid form, hence why I suggested soaking in boiling water for couple of minutes. The cholesterol bit is a total myth perpetuated by the cereal industry to take eggs off our table and replace them with their products If in doubt, follow the money trail ;) you know what's best for your birds pal but they won't get fat from it. I still think flushing it down the drain is a bit of a waste. Collect in a big jar, keep it refrigerated, then mix with some milk and down it rocky style to build muscle lol

Again, humans and birds are very different and can’t really be compared but just to visualise it better let’s compare. Humans should have no more than 300mg of cholesterol per day, I’m gona just say an average human is like 70kg, so 300mg to a 70kg human is about 4.2mg/k. Nutritionally, egg yolk contains about 350mg of cholesterol per 100g, say an egg yolk is roughly 15g, that becomes 52mg of cholesterol per yolk. My hawk flies at 1kg so if she was a human she shouldn’t be having any more than 4.2mg, but the yolk from one chick can contain 52mg, it gets even more extreme if you look at Igor my kestrel, he only weighs 170g so he should only have about 0.7mg (if he was a human), that means one chick would have up to 74x his daily cholesterol. As a human you would have to eat a heck of a lot of yolk before the cholesterol becomes a problem but can you see how quickly it can get out of control when feeding to a small bird. Also it’s not human grade food so you really wouldn’t want to keep it and eat it yourself, it has intestines attached and usually comes in all sorts of shade of green and brown, very different to a nice golden egg yolk made for people to eat and has sat inside an incubated egg for almost a month. The only other thing I could do is bag it all up and put it in the bin and I used to do that but especially in the summer it didn’t matter how sealed the bag was, rotten egg in your bin stinks!!! At least I can follow the yolk with bleach and soap in the sink

@@MercerFalconry of course I was kidding about you eating it yourself rocky style lol but I'm sure some farmers pigs wouldn't mind. Microwave a few secs to harden. You're just wasting a whole lotta good stuff down the drain and I'm just very anti-waste. Keep up the good work and look forward to meeting the feathered ones some day soon)

The entire chick is kind of just a waste product of the egg industry so at least I’m preventing the entire carcass from being waste! I’ll save some of the yolk for you, I’m sure the birds won’t mind 😂

Great, thank you 😁

I give them food when they show a behaviour I want and don’t when they do something I don’t want, if they land on the floor or take ages to fly to me then no food reward, but if they are doing what I ask then I give food each time. With the mantling, the hawks that do it are second hand hawks and came to me with the behaviour.

I apologise, I am still learning how to edit properly

@@MercerFalconry You're doing great. Keep going. I love the content

Thank you, I really appreciate it!

i didn't get a selfie at falconry fair wen the man left the leach on the kite

You should have done some filming and I could have appeared in a video!

Thank you very much we both appreciate it, good luck with your journey!!! 😁

My arms cover a lot when I put the camera on my chest, it sees a lot more on my head

I have had cats my entire life growing up until I left home, my mum still has 4!

Some music works better than others, I like to keep changing it so it doesn’t get samey!

If any of my subscribers read this comment, please do not pay attention to all this misinformation

I do agree don't de yolk chick's but are you yourself a falconer? If not shut up. Beef rats chick's mice squirrels rabbit quail an chicken are all a good source of food for your birds.

I live with a bunch of carnivorous birds of prey, what did you expect when you clicked on the video?

Wilbur is an absolute star!!! A great nickname 😂