“Lamping!” 

“You don’t do that, do you?’’

 I Once sat at a table with some well known British falconers, purists from ‘Ye Olde Skool of Fauconrie’- you know the type, and when I happened to mention that my female redtail was catching rabbits both day and night. I couldn’t believe the reaction it got, ‘It’s unnatural’, ‘hawks shouldn’t fly at night’, ‘that’s not cricket’. Luckily for me nobody was armed, the fact we had just finished a conversation about another traditional past time; adultery, didn’t seem to bother them at all.

Lamping with a hawk does seem to be a controversial subject, it is
unnatural, it is definitely not cricket, but it can be very fruitful........

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