Another great informative video Ben. I've flown my male Redtailed Hawk here in Scotland now for 15 years and I can say that every season he just gets better. I picked the Redtailed Hawk purely because of the land I had permission to fly on. It suits the RT perfectly. I have trained him to soar, follow on and even sit up on a pole perch. He'll work with me great, but he definitely has a better time if I take my border collie out with us. He knows that the dog will flush out faster than I, and on those days I'm the one who follows on.... Keep up the great work 👍

@daleblack748

2 жыл бұрын

Hi buddy, I'm based in the UK. would you mind if I contacted you on Facebook or email as I have a few questions regarding RT. Im due to get one this year.

@im_misfar940

Жыл бұрын

Sounds like a fun life!

@zackaryrients1863

Жыл бұрын

Can I have your info.

Looking forward to your future red-tail videos! I'd love your insight/preference when it comes to manning them. Thanks as always for sharing your knowledge.

I love red tail hawks. I’m currently reading and hoping to join a club. Maybe even get an apprenticeship. I’m taking it slow but I’m super excited. I’ve have everything I need. I just need to pull the trigger.

As an aspiring falconer I greatly appreciate your videos. You explain everything very well and I love the little tidbits that make retaining the information easier. I am studying for my test and often listen to your videos while driving for work. I have always admired the RT and so happy it’s a recommended beginner bird. In the state of Georgia they recommend a red tail or Harris hawk to all newcomers.

Love how you imitate birds of prey, it helps the information stick in my memory. Soon you will be growing feathers!

Yes, I used to watch red-tails turn into the wind above a forested bluff over Puget Sound (Seattle area,) and just hover virtually montionless. Completely different climate and environment than Utah, but they are very abundant everywhere.

One of the most intriguing hobbies i'll likely never be able to be involved in

I have had a few red tails, one being a Kriders. The kriders is smaller by 100 grams (both tiercels) and I use him for squirrel hawking. I have recently moved to Idaho, a very different environment, and would love an instructional video on these other hunting techniques you have mentioned with RTs

Great video. My eastern male I've been flying since December of 2005. Used to hunt mostly swamp rabbts, now all squirrels. Rabbits are largely gone from Harris County.

100% the best bird to start with in falconry if you have the right game available.

@chriskitchen4772

Жыл бұрын

I agree.

I saw in another video that red tailed hawks are becoming quite popular in Britain these days.

Great video Ben, very informative, and timely as I go into my freshman falconry year. Looking forward to the rest of the series!

Awesome info❤ thank you

I’m just getting into falconry and love this! I don’t have a sponsor yet, but I’m loving learning about the sport.

i just seen a red tail the other day he flew -glided.right over my car he went into a wooded area and i lost sight of him real fast i was in awe just seeing him fly like that.

I've flown several red tails... favorite is still short wings... glad i found your channel... been out of falconry for several years now just about to get my license again been flying since I was a little kid trapped my first kestrel in 4th grade.. Was thinking about getting a redtail again..

I'm so glad I stumbled upon your channel. Thank you I feel like I've learned so much here :)

Thanks for making every monday much better

Hello Ben. Just found your channel and subbed. Not a falconer myself, just love all birds of prey. The hunting aspects has also fasinated me too. Keep up your great videos for us who are vicarious pleasure seekers.

Always a pleasure to see my bird and I in your videos

Absolutely love them! 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👍

Red tails have an special place in my heart, here in the Caribbean they're a bit faster than what we expect of them to the point I've hunted guineafowl and northern bobwhite really often, they're really quarry and also quite difficult to hunt. A passage male red tail can be an incredible hunting partner but needs a lot of time and effort to get in shape.

Love your content!!!!

Great video. I had a Redtail and have for many years. I have had some great flight’s in woodland and open moorland. Thanks again Ben.👍 🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧

Fascinating.

Love your channel hoping to get into falconry someday. Your podcast is good too

I had one when I was in juvenile detention. But it was the highlight of my life. Loved her. Raised from a baby, by the time I left she could take down a hare no problem. So much fun. Now I'm 40 and trying to get back into it. Already sourced the bird etc

Wow! This is amazing!!! This is the first time I’ve heard of falconry. I came across this video because I’m trying to learn more about red tailed hawks. There’s a red tailed hawk in my neighborhood. I take my baby for a walk every morning, and we usually see it and stop and say hi and watch it for a bit. The last few days, we’ve been too busy to do our morning walk. I took my baby in the afternoon yesterday through a different part of the neighborhood and wasn’t thinking about the hawk, and halfway through the walk “she” flew right in front of us, so close that I almost could touch her! I want to believe that she recognized us and was saying hi, but maybe that’s wishful thinking. I want to know how to get a wild hawk to bond with you.

Thank you for your great videos. When you more RT videos, I think it would be great to hear about hunting other prey than squirrels and rabbits. Thanks again.

@suarezci

2 жыл бұрын

What about birds?

FINALY! I was starting to think you hated red tails🤣

Your videos are fantastic as always buddy , here in ozz we can’t do falconry unless your with a wild life rehab centre to help the falcons / hawks , to me it’s really sad because falconers also save these beautiful majestic creatures where they may not have survived and also I think prevents them from going into dangerous levels of decline in survival in the wild , goodness knows our country has many bush fires etc that wipe there habitats out and drought and other things , just makes sense to me like you guys to be trained do an apprenticeship with them etc when beginning falconry , anyway love your content , makes me jealous lol thank you for your wonderful videos . 👍

Can't wait!

One observation that I learned when I was young, is eyas red tails seem to go up to 300 feet and wait on above you. Whereas the passage birds would want to sit on poles or trees. Either way though, they all made excellent jackrabbit birds.🤔👍

I love RTs

Hi Ben, I love the videos, i really learn a lot from you. thank you very much! I dont know if you know this but i have a question about going to the USA to practise falconry. I am from the Netherland and my dream is to trap and fly a Harris Hawk and a Red Tail Hawk for a season. I hope you can give me more info about a for foreigner traveling to the states and practising Falconry.

I had a Red - tailed hawk for a few years in high school. I think they would make a great beginners bird if one trapped a passage bird early enough. They are beautiful birds and very intelligent. Frank Beebe claimed that out of all the raptures this bird had the widest amount of different personalities.

Thanks Ben delightful video! I’ve been wondering, does anyone fly caracaras? I think I’ve seen one only once here in the SoCal desert, beautiful bird!

Slope soaring my red-tails when I used to have the fields was maybe the most fun I've had in falconry.

Every now and then my red-tailed hawk would have a squirrel tail hanging out of her mouth. Squirrels would get curious and climb up to look what was in her enclosure. She'd reach through the bars, pull them in, and eat them. Well, no flying for a few days....

I would like to see some duck hunting with a RT and other Hawks. A trapping video on RT’s would be great to see also. Also I recommend people should buy your trapping book.

Great informational video very similar raptor to it's euro cousin

Slope Soaring video would be great

I've been on a journey to get my apprenticeship... Custom building my mew for a Red Tailed Hawk. Sucks because I know where a dark morph Red Tail Hawk is but you can tell it is an adult. Hoping its a female that lays this season!

Is there a good list of bird grip strength somewhere? Maybe in PSI?

Great video! I'm a starter with a RT, now 1 year old. I could use some advice about male or female. How can I be sure?

10:10, agreed "buzzer" is what they are called here on the east coast. And the screeching sounds like mockery on the manual laborers.

Some interesting data that have been able to witness. I have compared the gps speed between a Harris and a RT and the RT constantly hit higher top end speeds. A friend saw 56 mph tail chase . I believe they are similar to eagles in which they do not appear as fast because of their huge size but in reality they are moving very fast. Harris hawks are much easier to live with. On fur if I only had room for one hawk the RT is king especially an early taken passage. This is coming from a guy who has flown many accipiters and many Harris hawks.

@chuckr1951

2 жыл бұрын

Interesting. I have been flying an 800 gram passage female HH for more than a decade, and a 900 gram male RT since 2005. I have been unable to determine which is faster top end, but both I believe are faster than my erstwhile 625 gram Coulson male that I gave to a friend in 2009, but ocassionally still fly. He looks fast as hell, is a terrific game hawk, but I've seen evidence that the other two are faster over the ground.

Hey Ben, I found your channel tonight after realizing that over the last several weeks or months we have seen the number of Hawks that are hanging out directly above our house go from three that we're hanging out at a little distance away. I would say maybe 50 feet to 100 to 100' up in some tall trees kind of in another neighbors yard Last night when we noticed that we have anywhere from 15 to 20 of them sitting in trees directly above our house all looking down at us and our three small dogs. Our dogs are not tiny, but they are not big either. I would say they range and wait from 12 to 17 or 18 pounds Chihuahua mixes one is a pug And obviously we are concerned after I researched the Harris Hawk. Do you have any suggestions of what we should do to help deter them from hanging out here or what we can do to stop an attack from happening? Do you think at this point because there are so many of them that it would behoove us to get our dogs the talent proof vests when we walk them at night we live in Sedona, Arizona right next to the creek and this is the first time that I have noticed the Hawks at all Really. In the past we have seen you know maybe a solo one or two but this seems super odd and I feel like a group attack is imminent. I would love to get your feedback if you actually read this.

Is it ok to hood train during the molt? Or is it just too stressful? Intermewing red shoulder female juvy

Ben, do you ever have opportunities that someone could arrange to take photographs as you fly your birds? I’m a wildlife artist in my spare time and am currently trying to get photos of a Red-tailed coming in for a landing for a painting commission but haven’t had great success in finding good opportunities to photograph wild ones so have started trying to see if I can find a falconer flying a Red-tail that I could schedule a photography session with.

Hey Ben, I love going up to Idaho and hunting huns and sharptail. Would a red tail be able to catch a fast flying hun? They seem to bust or flush at 80 yards plus. Ps I'm in Tremonton

@benwoodrufffalconry

Жыл бұрын

If you trained a red tail to wait on like a falcon, then it is possible. But it would be the exception to the rule. Off the fist, they don’t quite have the speed to do it.

_If_I pull the trigger and decide to get involved in falconry, these guys represent half of my conundrum: I feel more drawn toward flying a kestrel, however, there are never fewer than three wild red-tails hunting my backyard and the field beyond, plus the occasional bald eagle and cooper's hawk such as the one that hunted our bird feeder late this last winter. I would be worried a kestrel, which I used to see in this area, but not more recently, would refuse to hunt or worse, end up as prey for one of the above.

Thank you for your great videos! Im interested of falconry, but we are not allowed to keep falconry birds in my country Finland. So i keep on watching your videos and dreaming of birds :)

@westelaudio943

Жыл бұрын

Not even imprints?

@sinip.1261

Жыл бұрын

@@westelaudio943 No birds of any kind.

Hey Ben how can someone contact you if I may ask?

Something funny i've noticed is that most of the falconers that I've seen videos drive some sort of subaru, probably bc of the area but still, kind of ironic for me

I got to borrow my friend’s redtail in highschool Southern California ( i was very cute back then )i’d gotten my grandfather to build me a mew and wanted to become a falconer

Love flying retails, both males an female s , ❤

Which books do people recommend for solely Redtails?

@brandenjohnson2889

2 жыл бұрын

The Falconer’s Apprentice: A Falconer's Guide to Training the Passage Red-tailed Hawk The Red-Tailed Hawk: A Complete Guide to Training and Hunting North America's Most Versatile Game Hawk

Hello, what is the bird that looks like red tail in Europe and the Middle East? Because I read that the red tail lives in America, but it can have relatives in Europe and the Middle East

@1s23d

2 жыл бұрын

It could be the common buzzard or the long legged buzzard. They are related to the red tailed hawk

is it incorrect terminology or different branching meaning in etymology?

Sponsors are so hard to find

Is it legal to shoot them when they are trying to hunt your little dog?

ONgamehawking is an amazing Channel if someone is interested in proper Redtail Falconry. Longwinger and Shortwinger Falconry aswell

Sounds like our education system.

How do you become a falconr

@Espltdripstick

Жыл бұрын

Hey Alexis, You have to first find a sponsor. Some people that sponsor may require you to hunt with them for a season or two to see if falconry is really for you. Then you must gather you’re equipment and build mews if they agree to sponsor you. Then you must pass you’re states falconry exam with the required score to pass. Here in NC it’s 80%. Then state wildlife will come to you’re home and inspect you’re gear and facilities. After that you can get you’re license and start trapping in trapping season. Hope this helps!

@AlexisGonzalez-ui2wo

Жыл бұрын

@@Espltdripstick how do you find a sponsor

@Espltdripstick

Жыл бұрын

@@AlexisGonzalez-ui2wo Check you’re local town and see if there are any falconry groups in you’re area. Here we have the NC falconers guild. And most states have falconry groups that have field meets a few times a year. See if you can go to one of these meets and meet some falconers. Then it’s all conversation ask to take trips with them out into the field to hunt with them. After you’ve done that for awhile and they see you’re serious. You may find a sponsor.

First :D

I'm not a general or master falconer. But none of them seem to understand the actual hunting aspect of the Red tail or any other bird of "tamed" bird of prey. How can they expect the best performance from these birds in getting rid of their pest prey when they handicap them with a bell? For example you have a trained Red tail in the woods in a tree, looking for prey with a bell on. You have destroyed that birds element of surprise as soon as it takes off for the prey, the bell rings to the prey. Then every dodge and weave is advertised to the prey from the bird. The Red tail is totally handicapped from the beginning. Total stupidity from these so called experts of bird of prey.

@benwoodrufffalconry

9 ай бұрын

The logic you share certainly is intuitive. I use transmitters not bells these days, but in my early days I always used bells. I never ever had any problem catching ducks, pheasants, jackrabbits or cottontails with my bell wearing goshawks, Harris hawks, red tails or golden eagles. I am a western falconer and admittedly have not hunted squirrels with bell wearing red tails. But southern and eastern falconers who have taken me hunting all used bells and still had incredible hunting success. But it is true that a ringing bell does alert prey. So your point is a valid observation

@benwoodrufffalconry

9 ай бұрын

I don’t use bells on any birds anymore except for my falcons. I prefer to be able to pinpoint a bird 2,000 feet up by sound as well as by transmitter. And no pheasant can escape a falcon diving full speed even with bells on

Bbh

It's a broad wing hawk, or buteo. Nobody calls them buzzards anymore bro. Just like the osprey nobody calls it a fish hawk anymore.