Welcome to the Home Counties Hawking Club.
Falconry is the pursuit of wild quarry in its natural state by means of trained birds of prey.
Since 1993 the Home Counties Hawking Club has been promoting excellence in the sport of Falconry and Hawking. We have tried to encourage high standards of raptor keeping and to foster the well being and conservation of raptors.
New Members are always welcome to our falconry club from the surrounding areas. We have Falconers from Buckinghamshire, Surrey, Hampshire and West Sussex who attend the meetings. If you are new to falconry and would like to join the falconry club, please contact us for more information or see our about us page for more details on the meeting and membership.
Check out the gallery for a look at what birds of prey some of our members have been flying recently.
Some great shots taken over the 2011 – 2012 hawking season
Please find below the club’s agenda for the year ahead.
May 15th: Discussion/presentation on aviaries/mews designs and building by Alan, Jem and Paul.
June 19th: Club open evening to the public. Birds, ferrets and dogs etc. on display.
July 17th: TBC.
August 21st: Club evening/social, talking birds.
September 18th: Equipment making night and fitting of birds furniture.
October 16th: Quiz night.
November 20th: [...]
The club is always looking for land for our members to hunt on.
Do you have land with rabbits, pheasant, game, etc. on?
Would you like to see the birds hunting?
If you have suitable land we would love to fly on it, please email us, speak to a member or call Richard Markham on 07951 628623
Jem’s Harris Hawk having hatched out one of two eggs given by Nick brace.
The club AGM was held on Tuesday the 20th March. The 2011/12 committee was disbanded and a new committee was proposed.
This is a reminder that it is the first club meeting of 2012 tomorrow night and Jem will be doing a demonstration on game preperation.
We look forward to seeing you and we will be in the skittle alley tomorrow night.