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Mar 13 2009

Wreckreation Nation Goes to the Birds

Published by mycka at 8:29 am under wreckreation nation Edit This

 diego Dave’s bird, Diego

Falcons can fly up to 230 mph and Dave Mordal from Wreckreation Nation got to experience it first hand when he visited the West Coast Falconry Academy in Sacramento, CA.

falcon

He along with two other students learned how to bond with them. They are birds of prey so they are taught how to make them come to them with bits of meat on their leather glove. A falconer use the birds to catch wild game in a natural habitat but since Dave was a beginner, he could only take the birds on a hawk walk and then used the robo-rabbit which is a training tool.

swinging a lure

At the end of the day, Dave didn’t want to leave Diego and found out how beautiful these wolves of the sky are…

 

 

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