Falconers develop special rapport with raptors
As Rob Rainey walked in a field near a row of homes recently, his hunting partner was closing in on a quail when he turned sharply and crashed into a plate-glass window.
"He died doing what he loved,” Rainey said.
Whinge was a Finnish goshawk, and hunting is what a bird of prey’s world is all about. Rainey, as a falconer qualified and licensed to work with raptors, gets to be a part of it.
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