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Caption: Falconry Art and flight
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Caption: I've always been fascinated with birds and flight ....Since my earliest memories, I've laid on my back in the mountains watching Hawks, Falcons and Eagles spiral toward the sun wishing I was looking down through the clouds instead of up at them
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Caption: Then, one day on a walk with my dog, I found a Short Eared Owl that had been mistakenly shot. It's wing was broken but it was indeed alive
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Caption: I had a choice
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Caption: I could leave the injured owl for nature to "take its course" or, I could take it to a Raptor rehab facility
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Caption: Little did I know that this decision would lead me to many years of adventure forming partnerships with many of the raptors that I'd watched as a kid and flown with while in a hang glider as an adult
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Caption: Falconry somehow bridges the gap between what I respect and what I wish for. I've learned patience and humility and am still in awe every time I watch a peregrine dive out of the sky at 200mph
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Caption: "The hawk, as a lethal agent, is the perfect flower of that still utterly mysterious alchemy - evolution"
Aldo Leopold