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Birders

csziggy

(34,136 posts)

12. I had a Harris Hawk show up on my farm years ago

Reply to StarryNite (Original post)

Fri Dec 17, 2021, 09:50 AM

Dec 2021

This was significant since I am in North Florida and they do not live here. After studying it, I realized it had jesses - the straps that falconers put on their birds. I called around and found that a man living near me was a falconer and had lost his Harris Hawk. I made contact with him and he came out to my farm, but by then the hawk had flown off to the north. I don't know if the falconer every got his hawk back.

The only other place I have seen one was in Scotland at Dunrobin Castle where we went to a falconry exhibition.