Falconry for vineyards
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Interesting piece. H/T WTG. Glad they are protecting my beloved pinot noir grapes.
https://punchdrink.com/articles/vineyard-falconry-wine/
"In 2021, UNESCO added falconry to its “Intangible Cultural Heritage” list, and linguistic links to falconry are ubiquitous: hoodwinked references the leather hood that covers a bird’s eyes to keep them calm; a haggard is an adult bird caught in the wild. The list goes on: waiting with bated breath, under your thumb, wrapped around your little finger, end of my tether."
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A couple of things...
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I notice she's carrying, but I'm not sure if that's a revolver or something else. If not a gun, wonder what it is and wonder what it's for.
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I wonder how they train the birds not to kill? There is a group of guys over in Natchez that have a lot of fun hunting squirrels with hawks. Sometimes, it's a chore to get a bird to give up his squirrel after he gets his talons sunk in good...It's a natural act of a hunting bird to sink his talons and kill his prey. Wonder how they keep the vineyard birds from not getting their talons into the nuisance birds...
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