This is my ultimate hope - working dog and bird together. I too have fond memories of Kes but the whole fascination with birds of prey goes much deeper with me and I suppose the real clincher is that a dog is a domesticated animal and with training it will generally do as asked - however well a BOP is trained it can fly and that makes me respect the work it will do in a hunting partnership all the more.
I hope you will post updates on this.
Milly wrote: Just one thing, he said the first bird hadn't been out for three months Surely they could have let it out to fly a bit more.
I didn't watch the video yet but just to reassure you - there are good reasons for raptors not being taken out to fly; the moult being one of them.
Unlike humans who get bored and feel the urge to be 'doing', birds of prey, dogs, any hunting animal would spend large amounts of time resting in their wild state - their exercise is all about catching food so if they have fed they rest
Cathy
There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it. Edith Wharton
Surely they could have let it out to fly a bit more.