Ferreters love their animals with the severe military love that attaches the falconer to his bird and the huntsman to his hounds. |
We were watching Annie, another centre falconer, luring a young lanner through a pattern of stoops and dives after a pair of meat-garnished, dried wings swung on a long cord. |
The falcon is taught to hop, then flutter, and finally fly the length of the creance to the falconer for food. |
The falconer says he has been warned he could be arrested for trespassing if he tries to get her. |
The falconer of war had unhooded his new brood of hawks and they mounted up, free of bells and jesses. |
He had a cast of hawks himself, and expected Lord Orford's falconer on the next morning with a cast and a half more. |