Photos of Shaymus free flying

Featheredsamurai · Aug 30, 2014

Took these on Thursday, he was being a beautiful model haha. I really need to take my DSLR out sometime, but I have to pay attention to him as he flies and worry it will distract me.

Flying in

He likes being up high

Panorama with my iPhone

flying away

Video of Shaymus flying down, then flying away

[ame="http://youtu.be/oiK5P6EWD1w"]land and take off - YouTube[/ame]

getwozzy · Aug 30, 2014

Shaymus is such a handsome boy!! GORGEOUS pictures, Ashley!!!

RavensGryf · Aug 30, 2014

Thanks for sharing more about Shaymus! I love watching his vids. Beautiful.

Mango121913 · Aug 30, 2014

Stunning, very majestic!

95talongirl · Aug 30, 2014

What a magnificent bird!

NiRD · Aug 30, 2014

He looks like a delightfully soft bird. I've only had the pleasure of flying one soft birds. All the rest hit like lightening to the glove.

Featheredsamurai · Aug 30, 2014

Thankyou, it's pretty cool to have trained him and fly him daily. Now just have to get Rosie flying better

but no free flying for her, I've seen way to many hawks for that!

@NiRD

He is pretty soft with his landings, only hands hard when he's flying with the wind and has to much speed. He's pretty gently with his feet too, doesn't really clamp down unless he's very exciting about food. I've never handled a hard bird before, all my friends birds are gentle. Sounds unpleasantlol

faeryphoebe1 · Aug 30, 2014

He is breathtakingly gorgeous, majestic. Wow. He is only a few months old?

Blancaej · Aug 30, 2014

Wow Ashley! He is beautiful! Awesome pics!

Featheredsamurai · Aug 30, 2014

faeryphoebe1 said:
He is breathtakingly gorgeous, majestic. Wow. He is only a few months old?

Yup, pretty young bird. He was hatched in early may, so only 3 months old. In 9 months he'll get his beautiful adult plumage, he'll loose all that dappling and be all dark with white/grey banded flight feathers and a red tail.

jasper19 · Aug 30, 2014

that bird is so amazing!...are him landing on power lines a threat at all? That was my first thought.

Featheredsamurai · Aug 30, 2014

jasper19 said:
that bird is so amazing!...are him landing on power lines a threat at all? That was my first thought.

There is some threat, if he were to touch two lines at the same time it may instantly kill him. The lines are pretty far apart, but I worry about the top live wires, but he never flies to the top. Won't fly there that much anymore, why risk it lol
here's a website I just read
http://www.themodernapprentice.com/electrocution.htm

Timothy · Aug 30, 2014

Really beautiful Shaymus is. I love the first two photo's especially. Maybe i will try this out several years down the line. Gotta be a lot of work

Congrats man

Featheredsamurai · Aug 30, 2014

Timothy said:
Really beautiful Shaymus is. I love the first two photo's especially. Maybe i will try this out several years down the line. Gotta be a lot of work

Congrats man

Honestly parrots are much more work. If you're even vaguely interested find a local group or club, or even a event, try talking to falconers in your area and make contacts. To become a falconer you need a general or master falconer to apprentice under for 2 years, so good to have friends early on.

Just being around falconers and watching them fly with their birds will let you know what to expect, and if it's something you really want to do. Plus it's a ton of fun watching hawks and falcons fly

Mekaisto · Aug 31, 2014

I admit I'm more of a falcon person, but your hawk is gorgeous. We don't get any buteo hawks in Australia, just goshawks (pain in the ass) and kites (flighty and soft-feathered).

Are you training him for any purpose, or just for fun/exercise?

Peepers · Aug 31, 2014

That is amazing, my cousins girlfriend does that too. Beautiful bird.

Kinny · Aug 31, 2014

Absolutely GORGEOUS!!! Bit of a chatterbox isn't he?

Timothy · Aug 31, 2014

Copperarabian said:
Timothy said:

Really beautiful Shaymus is. I love the first two photo's especially. Maybe i will try this out several years down the line. Gotta be a lot of work

Congrats man

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Honestly parrots are much more work. If you're even vaguely interested find a local group or club, or even a event, try talking to falconers in your area and make contacts. To become a falconer you need a general or master falconer to apprentice under for 2 years, so good to have friends early on.

Just being around falconers and watching them fly with their birds will let you know what to expect, and if it's something you really want to do. Plus it's a ton of fun watching hawks and falcons fly

Awesome. I will keep that in mind. I'll be searching out if there are any Falconer's here in my area of Florida. Thanks for the info m8

And again, Shaymus is super beautiful. Your lucky to have such a majestic creature.

BACON · Aug 31, 2014

I'm assuming there are forums similar to this one that deal with falconry. If not good old google might have to come out. I really want to try falconry, only problem is having the time to do it.
Seeing your birds made me want to look into it even more

stunning!!

Featheredsamurai · Sep 1, 2014

BACON said:
I'm assuming there are forums similar to this one that deal with falconry. If not good old google might have to come out. I really want to try falconry, only problem is having the time to do it.
Seeing your birds made me want to look into it even more stunning!!

Yup there's forums, a lot of good info on them. And also Facebook pages

check out the website ed the modern apprentice, lots of good info about disease, enclosure, and just a great place to get started

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