Amy brought her portly little RT Cooter out this morning. He looked very good earlier in the week flying at 825. Today he came to the field at 850 grams. It was breezy, overcast, and cool when they showed up. I had Farrah ready and we headed out. Within about 10 minutes Farrah did an aversion flight, landing about a hundred yards away. That was it. I called her back deciding to fly her later after breakfast. Amy got Cooter ready and we set out. Farrah was tethered on her seat perch in the SUV.
Cooter rode the pole ok, but lacked the intensity of Monday (?). We didn't put up much for him to catch, and he went to a long ditch on the east side of the field. At some point we headed back to the vehicles, and Amy called him the 150 yards to the fist. He is always very responsive.
After a nice breakfast with Amy I came back by myself with my not too social bay-winged hawk. Things were much better. A bunch of chases. It rained on us. The following are two texts I sent to Amy after the hunt:
That little strip south of that (gas wellhead) Christmas tree has bunnies. We had several flights right there plus some closer to that N/S ditch. Farrah left the bunnies for Cooter. She's all about others.... A good day in field. One of her flights (in) the open was very cool, but she got beaten upwind. Rabbit cut back and she just missed. I may use this text as part of post. Ciao and thanks for breakfast.
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We were soaked but Farrah is more water resistant than Dart. Maybe because she's a Texas bird. The Coulsons' hawks may lean toward Arizona stock, which are a little bigger but maybe less oily than Texas birds because of environment. Based on nothing, just a hypothesis..... No theory yet.
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