Today at work we began our fall workshop which is a few days of speakers and relaxing and improving ourselves and our work relationships. Today's speaker is one of the new directors in our division and he also happens to be a fairly well-known falconer in these parts. I don't know what role he played but he was quite involved with the Utah Sky Trials this last year that I went. Anyway, his topic was on building trust, and unlike most people who use an anaolgy and relate it to their topic, he spent 70% of the time on falconry and 30% on relating it to building trust in human relationships. So of course I was grinning like a kid in a candy shop! He had 3 of his 4 birds with him. A passage caught prairie falcon, a peregrine raised from an eyas, and a gyr-peregrine hybrid he recently acquired. All beautiful birds.
Needless to say my concentration was blown for the day after that presentation. I'm really itching to get a bird now. I was hoping my sponsor or one of his pigeon buddies might happen upon a Cooper's hawk that I could trap but I may just go scratch my itch with a kestrel. I'd like to do it right and longer term this time.
