Cade-n-Coley

Here's a message from my Dad about the Sky Trials him and my little brother just attended. This is a big event for falconers and it's one that my Dad attends to every year-

"Garrett’s bird (My bird Officially) Verdugo, Hybrid Gyr/Prairie Falcon, took 4th Place at this year’s Utah Sky Trials. He flew good, just got out flown by three other fine falcons. Pictures here are of Garrett casting off Verdugo in the event and then one of me and Daryl Peterson with our Peregrines. Mine is a female and she WON the event last year. Daryl’s is her brother and MATE (kind of an incestuous relationship!) and he brought him to the event and entered him in it too. Garrett snapped this shot of us together. Both of them fly way better on a daily basis than they did for the event, but it was kind of a neat story to tell everyone down there, about how they make babies together after the hawking season. Garrett and I got interviewed by “At Your Liesure”, Reese Stein was the reporter. We’ll probably be on their program in three weeks. Reese has interviewed Garrett before and put him on KUTV a couple of years ago. Watch for it on KUTV Channel 4 on Saturday night or Sunday morning in three weekends from now."

-Scott

My dad has been involved in falconery for over 12 years now and Garrett has been taggin' along with him since he was just a little guy. This sport is pretty amazing. It's pretty neat to be able to watch these birds go thousands of feet up in the air, then dive down for the kill (you can actually hear them as they're going for the kill since their speed is so incredible).