On what was without a doubt, the hottest day of the year (so far), Sean and I made our way out to Maple Ridge to hang out with some hawks at Raptors Ridge, a conservation for birds of prey.
For the hour and half that we were there, we got a tour of the facility, got some basic instructions on how to handle a harris hawk and a red tail hawk, went for a forest walk with the hawks on our fist and then free fly the raptors in their flying field.
Some photos of our day:
I did have to overlook the fact that the handler was feeding them little pieces of chick chicks for food and to incentivize them to fly to us from across the field. Insert sad, teary, frowny face emoji here. It was a little bit upsetting, but I had to compartmentalize my personal feelings because raptors need food too. Still, I couldn’t help but feel a little sad.
That aside, the whole experience was pretty cool and it was such a great way to learn about raptors and get close up to them.
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