Indeed. Falconry is awesome.
Those birds of prey make me nervous, so I am not sure if falconry is for me, Especially since you told me about the magpie and the Aussie chick
Oh, they're positively frightening. That's part of the draw. Without tools, that falcon can and will kick your ass. The only reason it doesn't kick your ass is because you're smarter and have opposable fucking thumbs.
Picture yourself naked in a fight with a goddamned bald eagle.
Before you do so, go look at high resolution pictures of their beak and claws. Hell, they don't have claws - they have talons.
I don't want to be in a fight with a bald eagle clothed or naked. I had a fight with a woodpecker the other day, he was pecking on the side of my house so I threw a pine cone at him. He flew across the driveway to a tree and I threw another pinecone at him and it landed up in the tree on a branch about a foot away from him. He then hopped over to the pinecone I just threw at him, picked it up with his beak and hopped a couple times to the end of the branch and flung the pine cone back at me
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