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My nephew showed me this forum. He says there is a horse board but no eagle board. The eagle sits on the horse, so I post here.

Salburun is next week, outside Talas. I fly a female, eight years old, called Kara-Kanat. Last winter she took 14 foxes. At Salburun she will take nothing, because there are too many people and she thinks people are stupid. She is right.

Welcome. Does the eagle like the horse?

No. The horse does not like the eagle either. They work together like brothers-in-law.

is it true you have to stay awake with the eagle for days when you train her

Yes, when she is young. You sit with her, you don't sleep, she doesn't sleep. At the end she decides you belong to her. My wife says it was the same with her.

Chatkal eagles are bigger. I say this as a neighbour, not as a fight.

Chatkal eagles are bigger. Talas Alatau eagles are smarter. This is a fight.

Herald today: fifty years of the Hunter's Vigil, the bronze berkutchi at the park gate. Every first date of my life began under that eagle. All of them failed. Not the eagle's fault.

We ride to the bronze man every year before Salburun. He has held the same bird for fifty years. I respect him. My arm hurts after three hours.

question: the eagle photos for tourists in the old city. a man with a tired bird and a sign, 20 som a photo. is that bad for the birds? it looks bad

It is bad. A bird is not a hat. Some of those birds never hunt in their life. Write that I said it. Where I come from, selling a trained bird is a shame. Selling a photo of one is a smaller shame, every day.

Kara-Kanat is fifteen this spring. The custom is twelve years. I kept her longer, I was selfish.

Last week we went up to the ridge. I left meat on the stone and took off the hood. She sat on the rock a long time and looked at me. Then she went.

I am not a man who writes on forums about feelings. That is all.

Good bird. Good man.

i don't know you but i'm crying in the library

New bird. Two years old, from the Chatkal side, given by a friend, not bought. She has no name yet. She will tell me.

I told you Chatkal eagles are bigger.

Her name is Boz. She took a hare at Salburun in front of everybody. People clapped. She did not care. Good bird.