The Team

 

Boswell - the Barn Owl  

Nugget - the Bengal Eagle Owl 

was hatched in February 2008. We acquired him at the age of four weeks from breeders in Anglesey and he has also been hand reared and trained by Linda. Nugget was given his name by his silly antics as a young owl.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Basil - the male Harris Hawk

was hatched in May 2007 and acquired at the age of 12 weeks from the Lakeland Bird of Prey Centre in Penrith. Basil was named after Basil Fawlty due to the fact that he hated the glove with a passion in his early training days and regularly "danced" about with his long spindly legs.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Max - the male Harris Hawk

was acquired by us in May 2008 at the ripe old age of 14. He had spent the first three years of his life flying and hunting with traditional falconry methods, since then he has been in a captive breeding situation producing many youngsters over the years.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Dot - the female Harris Hawk

was hatched in April 2007 and acquired at the age of 14 weeks from a private breeder in Mid Wales. She spent her first 2 years flying and hunting but is now paired up with Max (above) and hopefully will produce some strong beautiful youngsters.

Dot acquired her name from her size. For a female Harris Hawk she is relatively small.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Spirit - the male Peregrine Falcon

was acquired by us in 2008. He was then 10 years of age and had spent 9 years of that as a breeding bird having little or no contact with human beings. We have since spent alot of time handling and "manning" him.

Spirit was named after his strength of character, he has been a bit of a challenge but we hope we are breaking through. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Chip - the male American Kestrel  

was hatched in May 2009 and acquired by us in July from a private breeder in Manchester. Although he was captive bred and totally parent reared it soon became very apparent what a cheeky little chappy he is. He calmly travelled in the front of the car with Linda on his second day with us. Chip acquired his name due to his species and tiny size weighing in at just three and a half ounces. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Mrs Chip - the female American Kestrel

was hatched in June 2009 and acquired by us at the end of July. She was bred at Cotswold Falconry Centre again totally parent reared.

She was named Mrs Chip by Linda, not a choice Paul would have made!!, as she will hopefully be a good wife to Mr Chip. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Grub - the male Lanner Falcon

was acquired by us in May 2010. He is approximately 12 years old previously owned by Jonathan Marshall "The man who flys with Eagles". His gets his name as he never has a bath although he is an extremely handsome chap.

He will be used to train up Linda and her lure skills, flown in displays throughout the Summer. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Flint - the Southern White Faced Scops Owl

was acquired by us in June 2010 at approximately 3 weeks old. He was bred

in North Wales therefore named after the area and will be hand reared by Linda,

accompanying her to work for the next week or so until he's a little bit too active.

Keep an eye on the OWL PAGE to see how fast he grows.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

India - the Pere x Lanner

Here is our new pere x lanner hybrid acquired on 18th July 2010 at 8 weeks of age and bred up in the North East.

We finally decided on the name India for her after a very special falcon who died tragically last year who was called Indi and who we miss very much.

Pearl - the female Peregrine

was acquired by us on 8th August 2010, weighing in at a massive 2lb 10ozs.

She is 14 years old and has been a breeding bird for a number of years but unfortunately her "other half" died whilst she was incubating her last clutch.

We are hoping to get her flying and out on display this year and if we can find her a new partner, we can put her back into breeding next year.

Topaz - the male Lanner Falcon

Topaz belongs to Paul's son Stuart and is on loan to us for this Summer after

the tragic loss of India who went missing after chasing pigeons in March of

this year (2011). We are still hopeful that she may be found some day.

Although she had her telemetry system on the signal disappeared very abruptly.

Chester - the male Mexican Striped Owl

was acquired by us in April 2011 from a breeder in North Wales at the age

of nearly 3 weeks. Chester is quite rare breed of owl and was soon introduced

to the visitors at Farmer Teds Farm Park where he soon stole the show.

As he grows he will be trained to fly in the demonstrations at the park. Keep

on eye on his "growing up pictures" on the OWL PAGE.

Buzz - the male Pere x Lanner

This is Buzz, we acquired Buzz in mid June 2011 at the age of 10 years from our good friend Keith up in the North East.

Buzz is the younger brother to our very dearly missed India. Buzz acquired his name by the way he set his wings during the first few days of manning him, he just looked like "BUZZ LIGHTYEAR" of Toy Story. (Lets hope he doesn't go too much to infinity and beyond)

Woody - the female Harris Hawk

Woody was acquired at the age of 12 weeks from a breeder in Bolton.

We thought Woody was a male but due to the size of her feet and legs and the weight of her we now very much suspect she is a small female. We named her Woody as she came the week after Buzz (above) - Well why not!!!

Matilda - the female Southern Boobook Owl

Matilda joined the team in mid July 2011 from the same breeder as Chester, she was just 3 weeks old when we got her and just a big ball of white fluff. She'll be growing quickly and will soon become a demonstartion owl alongside Boswell, Nugget & Flint.See her grow on our Owl Pages

The Boobook Owl is an Australian species, she didnt quite look like a "Sheila" or a "Kylie", we hope you all agree

so Matilda it was.

Bob - the male European Kestrel

Bob was acquired from a breeder in Southport on 25th July 2011 at the age of 8 weeks. We chose his name because (to be absolutely honest Paul was fed up with long names and titles as he hand paints all his own signs)

Poor Bob but I think he quite suits it.