More youtube...Me in February? 近い将来の私？

I've resigned myself to the fact that I'll be doing at least an abbreviated apprenticeship. Since my current living situation is rather confined, a red-tail is out of the question. Therefore my choice of birds is limited to the kestrel. Even though Matt Mullenix's book has made many people reconsider the kestrel, and I've heard of them doing some amazing things in the hands of the right falconers, I'll be honest and say that I was a little disappointed to know that I'd be flying a kestrel instead of the merlin or sharpshin that I'd hoped for. My biggest concern was that carhawking (releasing the bird from the window of a moving car), a common practice with kestrels, just isn't appealing to me. I'd much rather be out in a field where the uncertainty of when the slip is going to happen is part of the fun (at least for me). And then I found this clip:

再び一から始まって初級鷹匠免許しか取れないという事を分かった時非常にがっかりしました。アメリカでは初級鷹匠はレッドテールかアメチョウしか持ってはいけないです。今住んでいるアパートは小さいからレッドテールは無理です。アメチョウにするしかないです。最近この本のおかげでアメチョウの人気が増えているけど正直に言うとアメチョウはあんまりやりたくなかった。マーリンかアメリカハイタカは楽しみにしていた。しかし今日このビデオを見つかりました:



A kestrel from a T-perch? How cool is that! And since it's the same thing I was doing with my Harris hawk in Japan and what I'd hoped to do (minus the T-perch) with a merlin or sharpshin my enthusiasm for flying a kestrel is renewed! And just in case there's doubters out there who think that would work for sparrows, check out this next one!

Tパーチからアメチョウか？凄い！日本ではハリスを持ったときに同じように飛ばしていたのでこのやり方の楽しさがよく分かる。しかしアメチョウでできるというのは考えなかった！これを観てアメチョウは楽しみ！アメチョウはこれにしてもスズメを捕まれないと思う人のため次のビデオをご覧ください！



Okay, so at the end of the clip she's eating a grasshopper...I swear that was a sparrow she caught in the slow motion section! Did you see how quick she was? WOW! I'm really looking forward to February now!

まぁ，最後の画像はバタを食べているところだけど最初の所はスズメに見える。しかも早い！凄い！とりあえず２月まで待っていないといけないけど本当に楽しみ！