Some guy shows up one day and wants to buy a 1 pheasant in the fall of 2009. He was a master falconry (Mike Cornell) who lived in the same town as I did. He wanted it for his Goshawk. Yea no problem that is what I am in business for.

I have always had an interest in birds of prey, even more so lately running game preserve. Have many young Redtails in the fall. Birds of prey have always interested me. With everything I have going on I have never had a time to presue the interest.

Well Mike is hunter and has been doing falconry for 30 years. So now having I have a source to ask questions too. Mike came over at times to help me catch bird help with the hunt and loves to watch the dogs work.

I asked if anybody had ever hunted a dog and hawk or falcon together, well one thing lead to another and the following spring Mike is now looking for a falcon. To hunt pheasants with my dogs. He thought a falcon would be a good choice.
He already had a goshawk and wanted something a little different. He had a hard time finding what he wanted as wealthy oversea people buy all the white falcons Gry falcons for big money from the states $10,000 and $20,000. After a great deal of searching he finds a bird. She is a hybrid 1/2 Saker and 1/2 Gry at a resasonable price.

Zema arrives one day. Mike calls and said would you like to see the Falcon and of course I can not wait to see her. When I first look at her the first words out of my mouth are they always this ugly? There is just no other way to put it, she is homely, she looked like a hemroid with fuzz. Fortunately Mike has gotten used to me blurting stuff out that is on my mind and laughed.

Well the next step will be to introduce her to the dogs. Zema has now arrived! So we will attempt to take dogs who either retreive
or point birds for a living and say here is your new hunting buddy. I was a little worried about this part, I had an idea how the dogs would react I was worried they would try and retrieve her. From the time she was a few days, Zema like to eat. How much that bird ate has always amazed. There was no question about it Zema (the Falcon) is homely and a pig.