Sentences with phrase «trained hawks»

Half - trained hawks fly on a long line called a creance.

New birds have joined the New England Falconry — with six trained hawks, a falcon and an Eagle Owl, the skilled staff can conduct introductory and extended flying / handling sessions for groups as well as hawk walks and raptor receptions.

To dramatise this struggle, Loach typically features a single protagonist with a simple goal: Cathy (Carol White) of Cathy Come Home fights to keep her family intact once they become homeless; in Kes, Billy (David Bradley) adopts and trains a hawk to avoid the influence of his failing family and school; Janice (Sandy Ratcliff) of Family Life (1971) tries to preserve a personal identity amid domineering parents and psychiatrists; Stevie (Robert Carlyle) leaves behind a petty criminal past and adopts an assumed name to get hired as a labourer in Riff - Raff; Bob desperately scrambles for the funds to buy his daughter's communion dress in Raining Stones; Liam (Martin Compston) of Sweet Sixteen sells drugs to earn enough money to rent his mother an apartment upon her release from jail.

I honestly would have enjoyed the book more if she had hung the entire book on the process of training this hawk, but I can see why she didn't — there really isn't enough there.»

The more relevant question for me, is, are there parts of the narrative less engaging than the narrative about Helen training her hawk.

JG: Your experience training Mabel and T.H. White's experience training his hawk Gos were (fortunately) very different, as were the personal struggles played out through your relationships with your hawks.

While I was engaged in the narrative of Helen's training the hawk, I was more interested in the evolution of her grieving process and her returning to being engaged in life again, mediated by her training of Mabel.

More emphasis on the lessons Helen learned on patience from her father would have been more in line with how she was able to train her hawk (and how White was not able).

Helen describes training a hawk in close detail.

What drew me to the book was the description of how she used training the hawk as an outlet for her grief, and I was more than satisfied.

I had difficulty staying interested in the parts about training the hawk.

HM: When you train a hawk you're forced to think deeply about the differences between innate and learned behavior, positive and negative reinforcement, and consider conditioning in both a physical and psychological sense.

Later they helped me understand the difficulty in training a hawk and what could go badly.

Not exact matches

Since then, she has treated two thousand injured birds of prey and lectures extensively about the ecology of birds of prey, traveling with specially trained eagles, hawks, owls and falcons.

Physicists in Britain now have the social cachet of train spotters, except for the occasional star, such as Stephen Hawking.

Had this Taken on a Train redux a good shake more intelligence and a portion less generic action hero fisticuffs, casting Neeson as down - on - his - luck ex-cop turned insurance - hawking family man Michael MacCauley would make perfect sense.

In my old books every part of a hawk was named: wings were sails, claws pounces, tail a train.

I did not know about his personal issues and nothing about his training of hawks.

I knew the general plot: young woman training with a hawk.

I was very interested in the training of the hawks both with Helen and T.H. White.

I was definitely interested in how this hawk / training / hunting moved Helen from her grief stricken life to a person fully engaged in life later.

She stocks up on hawk food and begins the gruelling task of training her.

I found myself reading it and feeling surprised that I was reading about hawk training - not something I'm remotely interested in!

Initially, I was interested in the processes and progression of Helen's training of her hawk, and how it varied from White's.

Established Golden Gate Raptor Observatory in cooperation with National Park Service; GGRO becomes a pioneering «citizen science» program that trains volunteers as hawk counters, banders, and trackers

Falconry, known as a sport of kings, can include hawk walks and training.

In the winter months, the training is held in the barn, where these magnificent birds reside, and I learnt how to handle and fly a Harris hawk.

The artist's interest in the topic stems from his experience of having a hawk during childhood and his ensuing obsession with maintaining the partnership between human and bird during training.

Kids who liked maths, read Stephen Hawking, worked hard during undergrad while the arts students had lie ins, trained to be a scientist in a different field (eg particle physics) then became climate scientists.

But it also turns out he was kind of an infrastructure hawk, and forged bipartisan efforts to fund passenger rail — which couldn't happen today, since conservatives have since decided that trains rob Americans of their freedom.