~other Sharon

P.S. – I might be sleeping in my car too!

It’s interesting for me to know how these techniques are done. Frank (I mean, Rick…I’m no good with names) does look like a pro displaying the magnificent wing.

I look forward to hearing about your adventures later this month.

You’ll note the eagle is facing away from Rick. He’s keeping the dangerous bits–the talons away from his body and he’s hold the feet with his hand. If you have hold of a raptor’s feet, you are fairly safe. They don’t like to attack with their beaks–unless you stick your finger in their face. But the beak is close to their eyes, they don’t want to risk damaging their eyes. Their beaks aren’t nearly as formidable as their talons.

It’s much easier and safer for the birds if you take them out of the nets without wearing gloves. When I go up to go banding later this month, I’ll cover how we get the raptors out of the nets and how we hold them. I think it’s ten times easier to take hawks out of the nets as opposed to songbirds–those songbirds are so tiny, you feel like you’re gonna break them.

Amazing.

Kabuki has a pretty song too in the post below.