Chapter 61 Black Monster Eagle
At this moment, Yue Feng felt that his heartbeat was frighteningly fast, as if it was beating a drum.
Those who have not had this experience cannot understand the feeling of catching a top-notch big eagle with your own hands, just like a fisherman catching a hundred catties of eagle with his own hands. This kind of It feels like poison to people who love eagles.
This big eagle has been caught by Yue Feng with both claws. It still doesn't stop, chirping and pecking at Yue Feng with its sharp beak.
Suppressing the excitement in his heart, Yue Feng carefully wrapped the eagle in his eagle coat. After wrapping the iron-backed red eagle tightly, he once again sighed at the excellent appearance of the eagle.
Side by side with the ordinary yellow chicken hawk next to it, the chicken hawk is as skinny as an underdeveloped cub, but this one has a red iron back, an open chest, and very developed muscles on both sides of the keel, even if it is wrapped in the eagle The outline can still be seen in the coat.
Yue Feng raised his head and looked at the sky outside. Before he knew it, it was almost noon.
It is said that Yue Feng has successfully completed the mission of hunting eagles, which lasted two and a half days.
But Yue Feng hesitated for a moment and was still in no hurry to go down the mountain and go home immediately.
Everyone with experience in hunting eagles knows that there are peaks and troughs when passing eagles. You may stay on the mountain for seven or eight days and get nothing. But when the wind direction is suitable one day, and then the eagles pass by, you can catch them in one day. Quite a few.
Starting from the big buzzard in the morning, Yue Feng had already caught three big babies in the whole morning. This means that today is a good day and there may be eagles.
Anyway, the preliminary preparations have been done. When I go home at this time, I can only rest at home and simply stay in the mountains for another half day, in case I am lucky enough to encounter other people in the afternoon. The unlucky guy will catch one or two more.
After making up his mind, Yue Feng took out the steamed buns and pickles he had brought with him from his backpack, and ate something leisurely with the water in the kettle.
After eating and drinking, Yue Feng observed around, then came out of the shack and went to inspect around again before being arrested.
The harvest from the arrest also confirmed Yue Feng's guess.
Among the four self-catching nets, two nets were triggered, and two old kites in good condition were caught.
Looking at the old kite whose head and face were glowing purple, Yue Feng reluctantly chose to let go.
These guys are the same as the big buzzard in the morning. They are all adults who are more than three years old. Although they have strong muscles and bones, they are too wild and untamed to be tamed.
Yue Feng released the two old kites, then resumed the state of hanging the net, and strolled back to the shack.
Another long wait.
There was no response at noon. Starting from around two o'clock in the afternoon, various warning states appeared one after another.
Yue Feng was not idle in the middle of the afternoon. Old kites, common buzzards, giant buzzards, and even a two-year-old pigeon tiger visited Yue Feng's hawking ground one after another.
The three raptors have been mentioned before, and the last pigeon and tiger will be briefly mentioned here.
The pigeon tiger in the falconer's mouth is scientifically called the peregrine falcon. The male is called the pigeon tiger, and the female is called the duck tiger. The peregrine falcon is also a type of falcon, but more often it is used by princes and nobles. Raise it for fun instead of using it as an ordinary eagle for work.
How to understand this sentence depends on the hunting methods of different species of raptors.
Sparrowhawks, sparrowhawks, and goshawks are all birds of prey in the Accipitridae family. They are all forest-dwelling raptors and are natural opportunists. They mainly use short-distance sneak attacks and culling as their main hunting methods. In the lingo of hawk-handle type, this is a long-legged, short-winged hawk. After being trained, it can be taken out to work. It is efficient and practical when hunting.
The peregrine falcon, belonging to the genus Falconidae, is a wilderness bird of prey. It likes to live in wilderness, seaside and other places with wide views.
Although they also attack sneakily, they mostly rely on their extremely high diving flight speed to chase down their prey.
Their wings are in the shape of a sickle like a swallow, and their speed in level flight is low. When hunting, they are good at gaining the advantage of flying height, then changing speed from height to attacking the target with the help of super high speed of dive.
In the eyes of older falconers, this kind of long-winged eagle works in the fields. It is slow to start when hunting, and the power of its talons is much smaller than that of an eagle. Therefore, it is not practical to use it alone to catch prey.
The more reliable way to play is to use a hunting falcon and a thin dog to play the rabbit and falcon circle in relatively open terrain such as plains or mountain meadows.
There is an idiom called rabbits rise and falcons fall, which refers to the scene of rabbits and falcons in ancient times
In the early years, some of the princes and nobles knew how to raise these things, and they did not seek to hunt them. The efficiency is not inferior to this harvest, it is more about experiencing the excitement of hunting.
Yue Feng can barely make enough food and clothing now, but he is not so arrogant as to want to raise a falcon, so even though this two-year-old pigeon tiger looks good, Yue Feng still releases it without hesitation.
Unconsciously, the sun set in the west, and in the evening, Yue Feng saw that there was no chance, so he got out of the shed and dismantled the nets and ropes on the field.
In these days, there are very few people who know how to catch and train eagles in a radius of hundreds of miles. Yue Feng is not afraid of being known by others at this hawking ground in Hutou Ridge, so he just puts the net and rope, plus The trap was dismantled and taken away, and other net frames and ground stakes made from local materials were all put in place.
After simply packing up his belongings, Yue Feng rushed towards the place where he was trapped.
There were no abnormalities in the first few places. Yue Feng took the lures and nets one by one. When the last one was caught, an accident happened.
More than twenty or thirty meters away, Yue Feng suddenly saw a pure black strange eagle. It plucked onions from the dry land in the middle of the net, soared into the sky, and flew dozens of meters in the blink of an eye. High in the sky, it circled several times in mid-air and quickly disappeared in the southwest.
Damn it! What the hell?
Yue Feng let out a low cry, took long strides and ran towards the last place where he was caught.
When I got there, I saw that the four self-catching nets were still hanging well. The new pigeon in the middle, which had just been replaced in the morning, was still breathing its last breath. It was vomiting blood and shivering feebly.
Thinking about it, Yue Feng's arrival must have been too coincidental. As soon as the eagle entered the net and stepped on the pigeon, before it had time to start eating, it was bumped into by Yue Feng and ran away in a hurry.
This pigeon was definitely going to die. Yue Feng held the pigeon in his hands and observed it, then plucked out all the pigeon's feathers with his own hands. Finally, he found a fatal wound on the back behind the neck.
The pigeon was scratched by this strange eagle, leaving two large and two small wedge-shaped blood holes on its back at the base of its wings.
Yue Feng used his hand to indicate the location of the four blood holes, and in his mind he imagined the posture of an eagle holding a pigeon with its claws.
Yue Feng was shocked by this gesture.
An important supporting role is about to come out. Should I give a few votes to encourage him? The second round of recommendation data is poor. Alexander, adoptive fathers, please!
(End of this chapter)