MEET THE BIRDS OF PREY | Introducing my birds | PART 2 (2020)

Time to meet the birds of prey, the real stars of the channel. in this video I will introduce my birds, the other 4 of the 8 that make up Mercer Falconry. I decided to split this video, and in part 2 we meet the weathering lawn birds. This includes Pumpkin the Gyr X Peregrine falcon, Skye the Gyr X Lanner falcon, Nolan the Peregrine X Red Naped Shaheen falcon, and Patsy the grumpy Harris Hawk.
All these birds have recently finished a moult and are in early training, they are not particularly used to having a camera in their face so in this video I sit with the birds and feed them on the glove. I don’t force my birds to do anything and so if they don’t feel like filming one day then I don’t film, their health and wellbeing is above any need to make a video.
They are purely display animals. These four birds live in the weathering and get tethered on the lawn every day. Falcons are some of the fastest animals on the planet, and when they are trained to fly to me, a mesh fronted aviary that I walk past regularly is not ideal, so they stay on their perches apart from training or flying times, and honestly they don’t mind this arrangement.
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[@The-ir1vj]

patsy and more on Harris hawks

[@danmercer6590]

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[@MercerFalconry]

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[@tommercer9539]

Loved seeing Patsy having a bath, found it quite funny 😆

[@MercerFalconry]

Squat game on point, got to get that fluffy bum clean!

[@jakemurray8080]

Sway doesn’t want to be on camera, he just wants to perch on camera😂

[@MercerFalconry]

He just wanted a close up because he knows how handsome he is 😂

[@peregrinesmith1117]

You must be quite busy going out hawking with all those birds. What do fly them at?

[@MercerFalconry]

They are all display birds

[@GurpreetSingh-xl9bx]

Are u sure u bird is hybrid od pregrine and red shaheen because is looking lika a black shaheen shaheen

[@MercerFalconry]

Yes I’m quite sure

[@stephanielewis7745]

Skye and Nolan both seemed to have a very good nature. Shifting their heads around as you spoke. That's something my parrot does if we're having a conversation around her, it feels jovial.

[@peregrinesmith1117]

If these are all display birds (what ever that means) why is the channel called Mercer FALCONRY.

[@MercerFalconry]

It means I take them to country fairs and events and fly them in an arena while talking about them. There’s a few reasons it’s called Mercer Falconry, one because its the name of the business and it just makes sense to call it that because when the public or show organisers want to book something like this they tend to use the word falconry in their search. Another reason is because the channel has plenty of videos regarding falconry, and the care and training techniques used in falconry. And finally, I am aware falconry is the art of hunting quarry with a trained bird of prey but I feel that by clinging onto this old fashioned definition falconers are shooting themselves in the foot, the way public opinion is of hunting lately I feel like falconers would benefit from embracing the fact that falconry isn’t just hunting any more, it’s used for education, breeding, research, and conservation. If you don’t like it, just don’t watch it, nobody is forcing you to be here!

[@peregrinesmith1117]

So you want to change the meaning of Falconry to fit your narrative. That's some world class spin.

[@MercerFalconry]

It’s clear you just want to disagree with me so I won’t say any more on the matter other than what I said before, nobody is forcing you to watch the videos