Flying an avian exocet
Feb 05, 2020
4 minutes
Regular readers will remember that a little more than a year ago I was out with Ben and his goshawk Debbie (Death on silent wings, 12 December 2018). Back then, she had just returned after a sabbatical and was refamiliarising herself with life on his left hand. Some months ago, Ben got in touch to ask whether I fancied a rematch.
As we stood at the foot of the Pennines, the goshawk seemed a completely different creature to the one we’d hunted with in 2018. It seemed as though she was completely back in the game. We were joined in the rolling Pennine landscape by
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