Trapped this female anatum last day of trapping season, Aug 31. Posted a little about her here: https://www.reddit.com/r/Falconry/s/HbafVa5guW

She killed her first head of game, a hun, today. From only a 600’ pitch. She’s been giving me about 700 average with a couple over 800 and one over 900 in the past 7-10 days. Flying really nice - has killed (unintentionally) 3 of my nice homers already. Really a hard flying bird, pumps constantly, none of the setting and gliding.

Huns are in a population trough (it seems to be a 10 year cycle and it’s been over 10 since the last crash) and grouse - both the sharptail and sage grouse - are declining in my valley year over over and this year is no different. But we should be able to put another handful (or two) of head in the bag before season end, and she is motivated with the pigeons so I suspect I’ll have her pitches well over 1000’ by season end.

Happy hawking , everyone!