Not Giving up Yet | Hawking and Flying my Paramotor!
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- čas přidán 22. 08. 2024
- Recently I took my Red tailed Hawk to the park to hunt squirrels. It didn't work out well at all, she flew away and got into a territorial battle with another Hawk. At that time i was ready to quit falconry all together but after seeing the immense support of my CZcams community i have decided to persist and continue to work towards dialing in her weight so we can someday finally catch something! After our hunting attempt i decided the weather was perfect for a quick flight on the paramotor around the property.
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I want to thank all of you guys who were so supportive and encouraging after the last Carol video. You really motivated me to keep trying and to stay positive. My new approach is to work with Carol like this on a more regular basis without the high expectations. If the hunt doesnt go well then I'll just call it good and try again later and will wrap the video up with somthing else. I have ordered a new scale that should give me a more precise measurement of her weight my last one seemed inconsistent. I believe most of our issues are due to weight and stress. I do spend time with Carol off camera quite often but need to step it up now that its hunting season. Thanks again for all the support👊🍻🦅
Hi Maxx I used to work as a falconer you should use a dead squirrel as a lure and put a big lump of meat on the head area cut the meat halfway through which will allow the bird to get a big lump of meat each time it pulls at it so the bird feels like it's got a big reward for catching the squirrel. Enjoy your videos especially the carol ones
Maxx Powell some of the things you said in this video were quite worrisome. You are treating her like a pet that has the equipment to kill. Not as a bird of prey. It’s also a little frustrating that you can’t seem to trust the bird and seem to blame the bird for that. To be honest from watching your post videos she’s doing exactly what you taught her to do. Now I’m no professional when it comes to falconry.
Just know what I know from people who falcon successfully. My two suggestions are not in anyway saying your a bad person. I think you’re a wonderful father and a fun dude. But you should either reach out to your local falconers and have them come over or you go to them with carol and seek out some much needed advice and maybe a few lessons. Or falconry is just not a sport for you. You have a lot of hobbies that you are great at and bring great content to CZcams. You don’t need to be great at every sport so don’t feel ashamed of not being successful at falconry. Anyways. I think you should release the bird back into the wild or seek out lessons from other falconers. Cheers.
Head to the pet store buy a few rabbits, a few mice, live prey animal you have enough land to let them go tie them up so they don't get far and play the game with her like you did with the first live mouse.
Cover your lure with a fur similar to what you are focusing Carol on hunting. I am actually about to harvest some of my rabbits which are American Chinchillas color. Would be close to a gray squirrel if you want me to send you one.
Bring the walking stick back and try to do the same routine for the rat video
Max, I’m a master falconer and I really want to see you succeed. You and Carol have potential, but you both need training and advice. I’ve flown a variety of birds for ten years, and a female redtail was my first bird. We hunted jackrabbits together, and it was so awesome. You guys can do it too. What is her fat weight and what weight do you fly her at?
Here’s what I think you need to do: you HAVE to get telemetry if you are going to free fly your bird so you can find her if she takes off for whatever reason. Wouldn’t it be nice to not stress out every time you fly her free? Marshall Radio Telemetry is the way to go. Get a transmitter and receiver. Practice finding your transmitter in your yard at home before you fly your bird with it. Make it a game! Ask someone to hide the transmitter, then go find it with the receiver. Your sponsor should be able to teach you how to use it. A Scout radio transmitter would be a good option for your redtail. I love mine and have had great success finding birds with it. The battery life can last for days. The UHF models have a more powerful frequency than the old school version. They even sell gps transmitters! Although they are a lot more expensive and they only last for about 12 hours as far as I know, they are very useful for finding your bird in a snap and analyzing flights (altitude, maximum speed, etc.) You can see her location on your iPhone in real time. Trust me, you’ll feel a lot better about giving your bird more opportunities to free fly and feel A LOT less anxious when you’re out hunting. It is the responsibility of a falconer to keep tabs on their bird. A good falconer always flies with telemetry. Murphy’s Law is always at work. Additionally, you can fly her with an RF and gps transmitter (one on each leg, or tail mount and backpack mount) for even more security/peace of mind. I can post a link, if you want the info. You can also google Marshall Radio Telemetry and find them too.
Also, I highly recommend not hunting your bird at a park where people can watch-people will approach you and that can potentially mess up the whole flight even if your bird is tame. For example, your bird may get startled and take her kill into a tree. Some will be amazed, but some may give you their opinions about how wrong it is to do falconry. Not everyone gets it, and that’s ok, but you need to be aware of it. I’ve heard of strangers intentionally scaring falconry birds away so you can’t get her back, so watch out for that. Instead of dealing with the public, bring her to a field that has game, without people around. Replicate what happens in the wild.
As far as getting her interested in squirrels, you need to enter her on a dead squirrel first. Entering means that you are teaching her that catching a squirrel means dinner time from you. Kind of like how you give her a large reward after she comes to the lure, you trade her off her kill with a nice meal. Start by tying a small chunk of meat onto the head of the dead squirrel so she learns to grab the head when she’s hunting. This will help because those squirrels will bite toes off if given the opportunity. You would be helping your bird out immensely by teaching her to grab for the head. Your first session with her should go like this: ensure she is at hunting weight and hungry. Prep the squirrel with a small chuck of meat tied to the head. Put it in your falconry bag. Make sure you have a good meal for her so you can trade her off the squirrel. Once you’re ready, take Carol out on a creance or free fly her with telemetry. While Carol is on your fist, toss the squirrel on the ground in front of you. She will see the meat on the head and go for it eventually with enough encouragement. When she goes for it, let her eat the chunk of meat, then carefully make your way in. Don’t spook her. In fact, keep that squirrel tied to a line securely in case she decides to carry. If she isn’t spooked, trade her off the squirrel with a nice meal and call it a day. Do this a few times at hunting weight until she consistently quickly responds, then move on to the next step which is getting someone help you drag that squirrel to imitate a chase. You’ll need the help. Don’t let Carol see your friend pull the dead squirrel on the string. Your helped needs to hide so Carol gets the idea that she must chase the squirrel, not a human with a squirrel on a string. You need to do this a few times until she is consistently chasing with a fast response. It won’t be perfect the first few times, but she will get the idea if you are consistent with training. You’ve already trained the bird to come to you for food, now it’s time for her to learn that food goes away from you too. You can use the same squirrel over and over again, just freeze it after a training session.
The next step is to enter her on a live baggie, again, secured so she can’t carry. Let her kill it and break into the squirrel. Make sure she gets fed a larger meal than your earlier training sessions with Mr. Frosty Squirrel. If that goes well, go hunting and have fun! Your sponsor should be helping you with this, so I’m not sure if he is simply not there for you or if you aren’t reaching out for help? If you don’t know what you’re doing, reach out my dude! My sponsor was never there so I had to find help from another falconer if I wanted to be successful. I got very lucky and found another falconer who helped me trap my bird and enter her on bunnies. We successfully hunted jack rabbit for a couple of years before releasing her. I highly suggest doing this training before you go hunting again.
Sidenote- Carol wasn’t attempting a mating ritual on your last video. Red tails squabble over territory all the time and sometimes grab each other to show who’s boss.
Hope this helps you, and good luck. 👍
I'm wanting to eventually get into the sport myself, but I have to finish college first lol but thank you for posting this comment because it explained rather simply what to do, even to someone who isnt in the sport yet. 😁
By the way, I am mistaken about the gps system! The battery life can last
2-3 days according to the Marshall Radio Telemetry Website :) waaaay better than just one day in my opinion. You never know what could happen.
Send him this in a dm on his Instagram
Elijah I think you are wise in waiting until you have more time to do falconry. When you get a bird, most of your free time will go to it, so good call. You want to do this when you have the time, or else the guilt will set in. I released my redtail because I went to college and I’m so glad I did because she wouldn’t have flown very much while I was in school. It would have been a disservice to the bird, and they certainly aren’t lawn ornaments lol Learn more about the sport in the meantime when you can, and make sure you get a bird appropriate for the time you have and the game where you live. You will be a lot happier keeping those things in mind since you know the bird you get will have the opportunity to do what it’s best at. If you have the opportunity, go to a falconry meet. That’s where I started and it was SO awesome seeing people fly their birds. Most of the time if you ask a falconer if you can join them on a hunt, they will say yes. Wishing you the very best in your falconry journey! :)
redshoulder18 I want to get into the sport I don’t have the time or the money to do it right now so being a falconer in my DnD group is the best I can do and read books on it
Tip from an experienced squirrel hawker: you are never going to get a squirrel hunting her off the fist like people do with rabbits. She has to be in the tree above the squirrel in order for her to stand a chance at catching one. To help teach her some people use a frozen squirrel as a lure draped up in a tree to help teach them what to look for.
Cindy Fry 100% agree, he also needs to work with her every day, not just once every couple weeks.
Knowing how "location sensitive" animals are when working on behavioral things, I would have chosen another location than the park of dread. Bad association with a location affects both animal and handler.
I was thinking this too... why keep going to a park area. Too much activity, cars, manmade objects.
I'm still learning, so I may be completely wrong. I've yet to become an apprentice, but hope to have taken the test and sponsored by next year hunting season. We'll see.
I've got no idea but I was really hoping he tried somewhere else...more lure training rather than coming to the hand for food too?
Squirrel lure try that. Sounds like she needs to know it is dinn
“If it were easy....everyone would be doing it”.....Stay positive! 🙏🏻🇨🇦
Catch a live squirrel and put a leash on it long enough that it can run for a bit. Then let Carol hunt it. That way the environment is more controlled.
This legal?
@@TheTxPilot Almost certainly not. Most states have very strict laws on trapping wild animals, and even stricter laws on what you can do with them once they are caught.
Put a leash on it? It would bite you about 30 times before you could turn loose of it. Yes, I am speaking from experience.
I'm just shooting off the cuff here, so please don't be too cruel since I have no real falconry experience, just lots of love and research. Don't Buteos like Carol prefer to sit up high and dive down when they spot prey? Accipiters are the ones that go for the tail chase. Maybe if you can flush a squirrel out when she's sitting on a tree, she'll dive on it. Again, just thinking out loud here. Please don't give up! I don't have the time (or the health, sadly) to be a falconer, so following your adventures is an amazing experience. Thank you for sharing it with us!
As some of the falconers including myself have mentioned in your previous video of "experience" with her, start off training her with a lure that is a squirrel. You want to hunt certain types of game? You got to introduce it to her by lure (or in some cases, semi frozen of the body itself tied to a rope). You can't just "expect" for her to know what to hunt right away. As for her current lure, yes she is familiar with it, because you trained her to tackle it, and I'm sure, that if you did hunting on game birds, she'd have more chance of catching the game because the lure and food provided to her (quarry) has helped her to understand of what to catch.
Lower her weight a tad more, and pleaseeeee get a telemetry on her if you have not! A potential lost bird with equipment like that could possibly be a dead bird within minutes/hours/days if caught on the wrong perching spot. the telemetry can at least guide you to her location.
P.S - your teacher should really be with you in the fields/forests on your hunts, to analyze where your going wrong. For me, it's like this: If you can't put the time into training your students, then you are not fit to be a teacher at all.
I'd suggest looking for another teacher who takes it serious with you, to be successful with carol and catch game. If you need some help, or want a falconer to visit and mentor you for the week or two, poke me a message. Good luck.
master falconry here agree with your sponsor, i usually make my apprentices release there first bird and re trap the following year.
Love your channel and videos even if the result of the day isn’t as you were hoping for! It’s still very exciting and interesting and I’m not disappointed - these are great videos!
Oh my..... Thank God you are back with your Carol!!! Thank you!
You should buy some rabbits and hunt at your house.
Hot dang, that shot of the 3rd person in the para was very cool. man.
Try lure training her more before and after a hunt so she gets in the mood
Please don’t stop. We love you and carol.
Love the channel Maxx! The mustache is looking great
Pleasant to watch, thank you.
5:32 that is one CHUNKY squirrel 😂
Super excited about what's coming up next!
Don't give up on Carol ! You guys will be succesful ! Big fan from Brazil here .
Maxx, I'm glad you didn't give up falconry, if you're persistent, you'll succeed. Every predator can learn to hunt, you just have to find the right course. I am a falconer with many years of experience, so I know what I'm talking about. Still Caroll has a high weight, if the weight is good, it must attract any movement. Let her kill something that resembles a squirrel. and feed her there to know that if she catches it she will eat a lot. In a pet shop you can buy chinchilla that resembles a squirrel and on your property you can realize it as a real hunting. For red tail is a natural way of hunting from free tracking. You go in the woods and the red tail flies over you and after a few flights you call it on a glove. Do it with Caroll exercise. This gives me enough time to spot the squirrel and prepare to attack. First, just practice overflighting and then set up her practice booty. So Caroll finds out that if he flies over you he will hunt and start to observe the movement below him. Good luck
A+ content. Great job and God bless ✌️
Yooooo that camera angle behind you flying was awesome
Max please just retrain her it will help so much. it may be hard but it will help you and carol soooo much!
Keep trying with Carol bro it will only get better with time, your a team now. Your vlogs are amazing keep them coming mate.
Borst Park has a lights show that you drive through each year, pretty cool, and if I remember right the money they earn goes to a good cause.
You're good man. At least you're being REAL
I dont know what the laws are in Oregon, i use live birds to train my dogs, and my neighbor trains his falcons. he has used things from pigeons to pheasants, ducks, and chukars.
Don't give up Max. Your persistence will pay off big time!!!
Your patience is pretty incredible.
From everything i have seen, it seems you have trained her to come to you for food, even when you had the rat, you were at the rat's location and you were "flushing" it out of the bag for her so she came and got it. Now you are expecting her to fly away from you and seek the food, perhaps some training in leaving your hand to go get food is necessary, just a thought.
Being extremely nervous and worrying does not help at all. Being calm and collected will transfer right into her and it will help. She can definitely tell you are nervous and worried and that doesn’t help the hunt. Make sure you stay calm and it’ll go through your arm into her. Just try it. Also I love your videos. Sometimes the best rewards and success takes many hours and practice. Don’t quit on us please.
The face you made when you put the glasses on made you look like Nigel Thornberry
Benjamin Danner Lmao so accurate
I watch other falconry videos where guy's been doing it for 30 plus years and they are really successful and it seems to me that this is there only Hobby and they do it day in and day out. Anytime you're out enjoying another hobby you need to be spending that time with Carol.
10:33 Hunting stick!!! Love the falconry vids man! Keep up the good spirits!
Maxx I'm really enjoying your and Carol's journey. Please don't give up on her. I think maybe she needs to be in a more controlled situation, and trained a little more to recognize live squirrels as prey. Don't give up man, you two got this!
My husband and I love watching your Carol videos it has taught us so much and we are looking at getting our falconry license
As always from this channel, great video.
Go to a different area, but with your sponsor. If Carol doesn't pull through with your sponsors guidance and direction it might be time to let her go. But forsure dont give up Max. Gotta go through some adversity to be great at something.
You could try putting corn piles out around your yard to attract squirrels. It might make it so she doesn't freak out when you travel to hunt
Great vid Maxx!!
Awesome to follow your progression from learning to now .Inspired me to take this journey and get into para motoring. Keep up the great videos!!!
Fire fighter.... that explains the 70’s porn stache
So glad you are keeping going with Carol.. she will nail one sooner or later and you will be Buzzin.. As will we. ! That chase cam view on the para motor was sick too.. This is what makes your channel so interesting. As Forest's Mom said .. You never know whatcha gonna get .
I honestly think once you get past this and carol starts huntin(and she will)this will be so much more relaxing and enjoyable for you both🙌❤
Maxx I found the answer to why carol perches and won't chase quarry. Do you know ben woodruff? He is a master falconer who has a youtube channel. He just uploaded a video 2 hours ago,like he made it just for you.the video is called falconry:what to do if you bird keeps landing.also watch his other videos too.a wealth of info this man has. Give this video a watch and apply it to carol.ben knows what he's talking about.good luck. Cant wait til the next video showing her progress.good luck
Maybe that’s not the best place to hunt, you need to go to a more isolated time place. She might be distracted or scared of the cars passing by
Another great videa Max! You're an inspiration with your many hobbies and interests. Always look forward to your videos
You are awesome
Impressed you are able to get other things done, while having that paramotor and yard!! awesome vid Maxx LOVE The glasses
forget that box, just hood her and put a perch in your truck bed. My pops never boxed a bird ever, but he had two personal bird perches in me and my brother to hold the birds when we would drive. But honestly he had a carpeted perch in the back of his 4x4 toyota when he would go out alone.
Glad that you haven't quit falconry just yet!
Hey Maxx. Love your stuff. Quick comment on the PPG take off. I was just a bit concerned at how deep in the brakes you were just after lift off. May be the angle of the camera throwing me off but it looks like your left hand is level with your hip and your right is just above your hip just after take off. Just don't want you to stall by accident and potentially get hurt. Fly safe brother and thanks for all the great content!!!
Hu u should watch Ben Woodruff's video about " what to do and not to do to prevent your hawk from landing " like carol still does. Just a small tip
my uncle is a falconer and he mention that maybe you get a mouse or a rat from the pet store and then when your out in the park release it, they're slower that squirrels and you could point it out to her
Love the video bro! Keep going...
Just what you said, find some who will let you live trap a squirrel and use it like you did the rat or just let Carol go after it in cage, then let her lose on it. It may get away but there are too many of those gray rats around anyway! Hell friend put of a bird feeder just to draw squirrels to shoot to eat!
Keep up the the persistence and positively.
She is Max, she is so cool
She will be well worth all your efforts and struggles ... I promise
They learn to hunt from mom, I had the fortune of watching mom teach her young how to hunt a rabbit was amazing. You said you can't hunt a deer? Learn to hunt then pass it on. One quick search shows they hunt from above and crash into prey, so straight from your hand is unlikey what she wants to do, give her time with those squirrels from above.
You need to try a different location
I know deep down you wanted to say "if you're new to the channel I'm Maxx and this is my mustache!"
MAX! First, Carol senses YOUR nervous stress. Calm down. Second, You ALREADY know what you need to do w/her. You said it yourself. Do what you did w/th' rabbit, with a squirrel. Dead, if need be. Stay on your property and just train her to go after squirrels. You got this Max 💪 Everything just doesn't happen right now. Patient persistence will real your reward.
Glad your not giving up!! Look into gps tracker for her works right off an app on your phone so you will know where she is. Maybe try to get a few live rabbits to let go by your property see if she will go after them just a suggestion not sure if that’s legal. I seen a guy use a remote control car to pull a lure at a further distance away from you to train his birds to hunt 👍🏻👊🏻
MAXX with those glasses- “napoleon don’t be jealous I’ve been chatting online with babes!”
that's a fierce moustache bud
You rock Max!
Success is walking from failure to failure without any loss of enthusiasm
Winston Churchill
I think you should try staging a full on hunting scenario with a brown rat in the forest you intend to hunt in
22:27 Is she hunted something??? I saw this 6 days ago but I'm not sure if it is. Anyway, I'm really happy for u and don't give up u have given me so much inspiration in life and I believe that a lot of people feel the same way as me. ur my only channel that I have the notifications on and I see them as soon they get out. Keep being positive I believe in u ♥♥
Max get her over here to the east side of the mountains and spend a weekend on rabbits around okanogan. So there won't be a worry about highway noise and people just your bird and you and prey to stay focused on. I could even get you on some private property or even out on state land just out of okanogan.
I’m sure you can find a better place than a public park to hunt!! Take that beautiful lady to some public land or some open space. I suspect there is too many distractions around for her to focus 100% on killing.
Don’t give up on the bird my man. Keep up the videos
Don’t give up!! You can do this!
Max do not crop her up. If she fails..give her a little (never a full crop). Try again next day. A dead squirrel for her to feed on is good too. Make a squirrel lure too.
maybe you could try a few more rats? maybe some brown or grey ones, like squirrels. like, maybe one or two more at your house and then try to release one when you're hunting at the park too, so she knows she can hunt food there? hope you have better luck.
you are more than welcome to hunt her on my ranch,ive got lots of squirels,rabbits and some wild quail
Kool video!
okay i'm hooked.-
Hey Maxx, can you go to an area with less trees and not all the road noise. Like out in the wild behind your house.... Give her less trees and an open field to see, attack, and eat.
Catch a bunch of squirrels put her in your garage and the squirrel but when you release the squreles in the garage don’t let her se you so then it looks like a wild squrele in your garage
I'm pulling for Carol and you.
Maxx! Theres a neighborhood In sumner that has a field that has tons of rabbits! Right off of 410.
Hey max when u get a chance u should talk about the test and things u did to study I think that will help me and other wanting to do it also I think it might be beneficial to hunt with your (overseer?)
Max I hope you can work it out with Carol. I know you can do it, but it is obviously one of the harder challenges you will have to over come! Just know that you can do it!
You are the super cool man
Nice Maverick fly bye of the crazy neighbor🤣
Maybe try the trees over by the pioneer house at the park. Back behind the soccer fields. Maybe less distractions over there. Lots of squirrels there also.
It is called hunting because sometimes you just don't get anything. All part of the fun..! Maybe try tying a live rabbit on a line out in your field at home.!
You remind me of Goose from Top Gun with that mustache and aviator lol
Max try her on the lamp 👍👍👍👍
I respect your Decisions! .... that is all
Have you seen my baseball!!!!!?????
Is it legal to catch a squirrel and let it loose in your backyard for her (as a first time trial)? Sure seems like she has the skills to take one down, given that she knows for sure it's going to be tasty food!
We’re not Going to be pissed we are rooting for you! Why not hunt in the backyard?
I would definitely try a different area. Mutter keep working her. Worse come to worse release her and try a different red trail or adv other route of raptor
Yeah i knew you wouldn't quite. Using actual squirrels was what i was thinking to. And you have a pro falconer down below saying how to train her to chase squirrels... Using dead squirrels.
I believe in you. But remember, it's just a bird.
Awesome flight. Peace.
Your more then welcome to come up this way to hunt her or i have a young male red tail learning to hunt out here in Graham. But don't give up ❣
More hunting scenario for sure. Try getting am RC car to drag the lure so shes not completely associating the food with you. Also give out some kind of signal that there is prey,most falconers yell HO-HO when game is flushed as s signal to the bird. Hopefully Carol gets on game soon, would be a shame to release a non hunting bird.
I would try dragging the lure behind a rc var or something like that. Getting her used to a "fast" lure!
Hey man, stick with the bird thing bro. Even if you need a new bird, dont give up. Oh, and I really enjoy the paramotor content.