Chapter 57 Preparation before hunting the big eagle, catching the sparrows
If you want to catch the big eagle, you can’t catch it with the cage nets under the groves by the river. Go to the ones with the most conspicuous terrain. On a good hilltop, a new falconry hunting ground will be opened seriously.
If you’re lucky, you’ll encounter an eagle with a close eye in a day or two on the mountain. If you’re not lucky, if you stay on the mountain for ten and a half days, you may catch a lot of eagles, but not one serious thing.
Catching a big eagle is difficult. Even if you want to train a big eagle after catching it, the difficulty level still starts at five stars.
Any big eagle that was lowered into the net back then would have weighed between 2 pounds, 1, 20 ounces, and 2 pounds, 4, 50 ounces. A healthy eagle that had just been put out of the net would only be given water but no food. Son, if you stay up for ten or eight days, there will be no problem at all.
The ten days and eight days mentioned here are not the kind of ten days and eight days in which you fly a hawk during the day and sleep at night.
It is almost ten days and eight days without sleep. The better the eagle's physique and the tougher its temper, the longer this cycle of surviving the eagle will be.
In his previous life, Yue Feng also encountered an eagle that had to wait half a month to eat happily. It took 21 days for the eagle to go down from the net to work as an eagle on the ground.
For such a long time, Yue Feng will definitely not be able to endure it alone. The injury on his father's leg has not healed yet, and Yue Feng does not want him to be too tired.
Forget it, forget it, since you have agreed to it, then just grit your teeth and do it. At the worst, you can let mom and dad switch shifts to take over for you. Ten days and a half, I gritted my teeth and got through it.
Yue Feng made up his mind. When he returned home and had dinner with his friends in the evening, Yue Feng raised this question in public.
"In the next period of time, there will be some minor changes in the mission of our falconry team. Let me tell you in advance!"
"What's wrong, Brother Feng?" Xiao Tao was the first asked.
“The second canteen asked for live pheasants and hares, and I agreed!
So during the next period of time, I will go up to the mountain and stay for a few days, ranging from three to five days, or as long as Seven to ten days! When will we catch the big eagle? When will we come back?
During the time when I went up the mountain to catch the big eagle, Xiao Tao was temporarily responsible for the daily delivery at home. I have been flying the big green kite. You guys can take turns for a day, so you can't let the eagle completely idle. , otherwise it would be time to react! "
"Want to go up the mountain to catch the big eagle? I'll go with you! Let my dad handle the delivery! "After hearing this, Xiao Tao licked his face and came up to say.
"No need, autumn is a good time to catch chickens. It only lasts for such a short period of time. I can do it myself. You guys can take advantage of the fact that there are many birds now, so it's easy to catch them. The more you catch, the more money you make!
It will be much more difficult to go up the mountain to catch chicks after the temperature drops significantly than it is now!
I am taking a break from work to catch eagles. My family’s income still depends on everyone’s daily harvest, so I can’t slack off! ”
Yue Lei nodded at this time: "There are me, your mother, and your Uncle Li at home, so don't worry! What do you need to prepare? I will help you organize it starting tomorrow!"
"The five-finger-wide eagle is from Nets, four sets of 16 pieces! One set of hand-pulled nets that are six meters long and two and a half meters wide! Tomorrow I will catch another tiger, and then go to my second brother Qian’s house to buy some raindrop pigeons. Basically That's enough! I'll come back every day and make up for whatever's missing!" Yue Feng counted with his fingers.
“Okay, what size do you need for the self-falling mesh?”
“One meter and a half long and one meter and two wide are enough!”
“OK ”
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After a simple team meeting, it was settled that Yue Feng would go up the mountain to catch the big eagle.
At dawn the next day, Yue Feng went out of the house with a shovel.
If you want to catch a big eagle, you must catch a tiger shrike before setting out to go up the mountain. When watching the birds, when an eagle passes by in the eagle field, the tiger will detect it in advance. Birds of prey, a warning to falconers. Tigers don't want to pull this kind of bird, they like to eat mole crickets.
Yue Feng didn't even bother to eat in the morning, so he went out with a shovel. He just took advantage of the dew in the morning to catch mole crickets in the field.
Yue Feng has done this kind of work many times in his life. It can be said that he can catch it with his hands. When he got to the mound where there were mole crickets in the field, he turned over the soil with a big shovel and quickly caught six or seven live ones. Mole cricket.
With the mole crickets in hand, Yue Feng went to places like the fields and woods outside the village and placed six bird traps in a row.
This kind of trap was taught to Yue Feng by his grandfather. Two slightly longer branches are inserted into the soil, and then a rope is fixed at one end of the branch, and a slip knot is tied at the other end of the rope to tie a live cricket Tie half of the wings and hang them in mid-air. Below the live cricket is a noose. Use a horizontal stick and a thin stick to stabilize the noose.
A live mole cricket hanging in the air will keep struggling, which can easily attract the attention of a shrike. When the time comes, the greedy shrike will fly over to eat the mole cricket, and it will easily step on the hunter's deliberate steps. Place it on a horizontal stick for the shrike to rest on.
As soon as the bird stepped on it, the force balance of the horizontal stick was broken, the originally tight noose mechanism was triggered, and the noose was immediately put on the shrike's feet.
As long as there are shrikes around, catching shrikes in this way is almost guaranteed to happen.
After Yue Feng caught enough crickets, he went around the place outside the village where there might be shrike, designed a mechanism, and then went home to eat.
After breakfast, the others took the eagle up the mountain to go out. Yue Feng found thick cotton thread and tied a pair of shrike collars on the edge of the kang.
Yes, you read that right, when raising a shrike to watch a sparrow, the legs are not tied, but the neck is tied.
Shrikes are not like birds of prey. Their claws are very weak and their legs are easy to lose their hips when tied, but neck ties don't have these problems.
Yue Feng put on his neck collar, then put on a pair of labor protection gloves and went out of the house to check the harvest of the agency one by one.
The first two traps were not triggered. When inspecting the third trap, I heard the iconic rattling sound of a brown-backed shrike in the distance.
Caught it. At this moment, the unlucky guy's claws are caught in the loop and flying around the pole stuck in the ground.
Yue Feng didn't dare to be careless when he saw this, so he put on his labor protection gloves and walked over quickly.
Although this shrike is not a raptor, its beak is sharper than that of an ordinary eagle. Not only does the tip of its beak have a hook like that of a raptor, but it also has tooth-like gaps that are similar to those of a falcon. One mouthful, without protection, will definitely make you see red.
Wearing gloves, Yue Feng went over and grabbed the adult male shrike. He grasped the bird's body with the tiger's mouth, exposing the entire bird's neck and brain.
After the noose on his leg was removed, Yue Feng took out the neck noose he had just worn at home from his pocket, tied it directly to the shrike, and then put away all the other mechanisms, taking this He returned home without any hesitation.
The wild tiger that was just caught has a very strong temper. It is extremely difficult to get it to handle or stand on the pole obediently.
But Yue Feng has a trick up his sleeve.
After Yue Feng tied the rope of the neck collar to the pole, he took a washbasin, and then filled it with clean water with a ladle.
The third update today, the second round of recommendations will start tomorrow. We urgently need the support of adoptive fathers! !
(End of this chapter)