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A Guide to Wildlife Law Enforcement in the United Kingdom: Falconry - Falconry regulations administered by DEFRA.
Independent Bird Register - Reunites lost, found, and stolen birds of prey. Breeders and split rings. Also classifieds for employment and birds wanted/for sale. Warwick, UK.
Country pursuits today - Hunting with Birds (Falconry) - Falconry as practiced in the UK. The birds, Code of Conduct, the law, seasons, FAQ and how to start. From the Countryside Alliance.
The Falconers Web - Articles on many aspects of falconry. Features health problems and care, captive breeding, and raptor management.
Devon School of Falconry - Learning the art, or experience a day with hawks and falcons. Includes details of self catering cottages, and accommodation within Oxenways Country House, in the heart of the Blackdown Hills, Devon.
Blackwater Falconry - School offering hawking training courses, corporate days, displays, advice and avian pest control. Includes photographs of birds of prey in London, events based in Southminster, Essex.
Forest of Dean Falconry - Introducing a hands on personal experience, learning the art, and the preservation of birds of prey. Also medieval days for corporate and social entertainment, archery and longbow shooting sessions, with links to accommodation in Ross on Wye.
Michael Davie - Falconer - Information about displays by falconer.
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Wight Falconry Once all struggle is grasped, miracles are possible. -- Mao Tse-tung We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavoring to stifle is a false opinion; and if we were sure, stifling it would be an evil still. -- John Stuart Mill If it weren't for electricity we'd all be watching television by candlelight. -- George Gobel Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon. -- Susan Ertz "Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right. Greed works." (Michael Douglas, as Gordon Gekko, Wall Street, 1987) Falconry The empires of the future are the empires of the mind. -- Winston Churchill My wife ran off with my best friend last week. I miss him! We all agree that your theory is crazy, but is it crazy enough? - Niels Bohr Falconry I tried a mail order bride, once, but she was damaged in the mail, and I had to return the unused part for my full refund. When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her. -- Guitry Beware of men on airplanes. The minute a man reaches thirty thousand feet, he immediately becomes consumed by distasteful sexual fantasies which involve doing uncomfortable things in those tiny toil Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing. -- Oscar Wilde Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door. -- Emily Dickinson Falconry Trust everybody, but cut the cards. -- Finley Peter Dunne When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell, leap. -- Cynthia H A dollar saved is a quarter earned. -- John Ciardi Falconry If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble. -- Elbert Hubbard All marriages are happy--it's the living together afterward that causes all the problems. If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate. -- Steven Wright Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end. -- Igor Stravinsky Everybody can be great... because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. you only need a heart full of grac Falconry Goodbye, Everybody! -- Hart Crane, poet, who committed suicide by jumping overboard during a steamship voyage. If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me. - Alice Roosevelt Longworth We need a president who's fluent in at least one language. -- Buck Henry Falconry "Not by wrath does one kill, but by laughter." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it. -- Alexandre Dumas fils "Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same." (George Bernard Shaw) "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) "I've just had eighteen straight whiskies. I think that's the record." (Dylan Thomas, final words) Falconry A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house. -- Moliere "Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear." (Ambrose Redmoon) The difference between marriage and death? Dead people are free. Falconry "The devil's agents may be of flesh and blood, may they not?" (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles) Most convicted felons are just people who were not taken to museums or Broadway musicals as children. -- Libby Gelman-Waxner The gods gave man fire and he invented fire engines. They gave him love and he invented marriage. I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults of the first. -- Benjamin Franklin It's important to be open-minded, but not SO open-minded that your brains fall out. -- Rick Radebaugh Falconry "Some look at things that are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were and ask why not?" (George Bernard Shaw) Most people are more comfortable with old problems than with new solutions. -- Anonymous I just need enough to tide me over until I need more. -- Bill Hoest Falconry One survey found that ten percent of Americans thought Joan of Arc was Noah's wife.... -- Robert Boynton The only thing you take with you when you're gone is what you leave behind. -- John Allston I have a daughter who goes to SMU. She could've gone to UCLA here in California, but it's one more letter she'd have to remember. -- Shecky Greene "Growth in wisdom can be measured precisely by decline in bile." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human) When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen. -- Ernest Hemingway Falconry "I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough." (M. C. Escher) A husband is what's left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted. -- Helen Rowland Honeymoon: A short period of doting between dating and debting. -- Ray Bandy Falconry The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with the wish to teach himself. -- Edward Bulwer-Lytton She felt in italics and thought in capitals. -- Henry James If you don't double-click me, I can't do anything. -- John Aniston, on how computers have taken over his life "In every gathering of thirteen, expect one guest will turn out to be a Judas." (Aleister Crowley) "Majority rule only works if you're also considering individual rights. Because you can't have five wolves and one sheep voting on what to have for supper." (Larry Flynt) Falconry "I think all great innovations are built on rejections." (Louis-Ferdinand Céline) Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street. - Elbert Hubbard "How can we know the dancer from the dance?" (William Butler Yeats) Falconry I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about "short" and "cheap"? -- Phyllis Diller Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson "We have to be able to criticise what we love, to say what we have to say 'cause if your not trying to make something better, than as far as I can tell, you are just in the way." (Ani Difranco) Women and Cats will do as they please. Men and dogs had better get used to it. -- Robert Heinlein, Time Enough for Love, Lazarus Long For best results: wash in cold water separately, hang dry and iron with warm iron. For not so good results: drag behind car through puddles, blow-dry on roofrack. -- Laundry instructions on a shirt Falconry Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves. -- Abraham Lincoln "A friendship that exacts oneness of opinion and conduct is not worth much." (Mohandas Gandhi, In Search of the Supreme) "Let no one be discouraged by the belief there is nothing one person can do against the enormous array of the world's ills, misery, ignorance, and violence. Few will have the greatness to bend history Falconry Soul meets soul on lovers lips. -- Percy Bysshe Shelley Destiny is not a matter of chance; but a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, It is a thing to be acheived. -- William Jennings Bryant May you be too good for the world and not good enough for your wife. Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever. - Napoleon Bonaparte To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself. -- Francis Crawford Falconry "Death is always and under all circumstances a tragedy, for if it is not, then it means that life itself has become one." (Theodore Roosevelt) In the end, everything is a gag. - Charlie Chaplin There's a fine line between fishing and standing on the shore like an idiot. -- Steven Wright Falconry Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will. -- James Stephens "Ugliness is in a way superior to beauty because it lasts." (Serge Gainsbourg) Say goodbye to the oldies, but goodies, because the good old days weren't always good and tomorrow aint as bad as it seems. -- Billy Joel We live at a time when man believes himself fabulously capable of creation, but he does not know what to create. -- Jose Ortega y Gasset Black holes are where God divided by zero. - Steven Wright Falconry Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting. - Karl Wallenda "I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found..." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend. A successful woman is one who can find such a man. -- Lana Turner Falconry
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