How To Use Falconry In A Sentence
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Falconry displays, American cheerleaders, Quad biking and train rides will also feature.
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A falconry display will also take flight on the day, and boys and girls will play in finals of the local schools' annual five-a-side football tournament.
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Falconry is not outlawed and in that sport you use dogs to flush prey to your bird.
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As well as a huge range of stalls and a car boot sale with about 150 pitches, people were able to enjoy entertainment provided by majorettes and a falconry display.
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She also examines the history of falconry and its literature stretching back to the sixteenth century, all with the same elegance and lightness of touch.
The Times Literary Supplement
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A falconry display, dog agility show and a cavalcade of military vehicles, chiefly from the Second World War era, drew crowds of spectators.
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The ancient, highly ritualized practice of falconry provided another source of positive associations for birds of prey.
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Before I quit, the monikers "modern" and "primitive" falconry may need a bit more explaining: Steve flies a domestic-bred, hybrid falcon, which is hardly primitive.
On Falconry
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The precise techniques of the hunt have varied, but until recent years the principle virtues of falconry remained constant: patience and cunning.
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Her resolve not to be bird-brained any more does not, though, seem to amount to a renunciation of falconry.
Times, Sunday Times
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Once you've enjoyed the maze you can look round the castle itself and enjoy a host of live displays, including falconry and archery.
The Sun
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The Rural Affairs Minister unveiled proposals to relax the ban on hunting with hounds and falconry.
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A current population estimate is needed to help assess the influence that trapping for falconry has on the population as it migrates through Eurasia.
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Humans have used raptors (both Accipitrids and falcons) for hunting and recreation in the form of falconry since as early as 2000 BC.
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She had been obsessed with hawks since childhood, and had worked at a falconry centre.
Times, Sunday Times
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It speaks of jousts, tournaments, wizards, falconry, enchantresses, damsels in distress, wars, quests, and the code of chivalry.
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Attractions include working crafts and conservation marquees, an art exhibition, falconry and archery displays as well as a demonstration of carriage driving.
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The show featured farm animals, rare breeds, domestic pets, produce, crafts and skills including falconry, beekeeping and blacksmithing.
Times, Sunday Times
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In addition to falconry, I also run a sighthound at game.
The Roller Scandal
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Employees from Ashford Castle's school of falconry bring hawks and falcons to Rathroeen where they keep vermin and other birds at bay.
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It speaks of jousts, tournaments, wizards, falconry, enchantresses, damsels in distress, wars, quests, and the code of chivalry.
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Like falconry, or trainspotting, this carries its own conviction, immune to time.
The Times Literary Supplement
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He was particularly interested in the courtiers and the ancient sports they practiced, including falconry and the use of trained cheetahs to hunt deer and gazelle.
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In the seventeenth centaury, there was a decline of falconry, and it was then that groups of hunters and their hounds first established ‘organised’ hunting in England.
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And it is ideally placed for fishing, falconry, golf or cycling.
The Sun
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Wanting to protect falconry as a sport, the government did not restrict the number of dogs that can be used to flush wild mammals for a bird of prey.
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English Heritage will enter into the, ahem, spirit of things, by putting on a series of spooky events in the ruins of Whitby Abbey, including ghost tours, creepy craft activities, twilight falconry displays and Victorian funerals with costumed undertakers and hangmen until 6 November, english-heritage.org.uk/daysout/properties/whitby-abbey.
Going goth in Whitby
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Nor does falconry soar towards the empyrean and scud in the firmament to demonstrate His almightiness.
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The current money is on Edward de Vere, the Earl of Oxford, who had the acceptable aristocratic and educational pedigree for the job -- presuming, that is, that you must practice falconry in order to write about it.
Who wrote Shakespeare? Author James Shapiro offers an answer.
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The court heard that Hopkins, who has kept and bred falcons for 22 years, bought the goshawk after meeting a man at a falconry event.
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Falconry enthusiasts wanting to delve even deeper into the subject can sign up for a course of either one, two or five days.
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The ancient, highly ritualized practice of falconry provided another source of positive associations for birds of prey.
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The country sports area alongside the lake will include hunting, shooting, fishing and gun dog scurry together with falconry and ferrets and a live smithing competition each day.
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Fascinating fact about falconry: you send a hawk away on your forehand and you bring him back to your wrist with your backhand.
Times, Sunday Times
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I hadn't had time to ponder on what my taster of a Bird Experience Day at Leighton Hall's falconry would involve.
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On the other side of the village is the Exmoor Falconry and Animal Farm, which not only keeps birds of prey and Shetland ponies but also has meerkats, a couple of kookaburras, and a llama.
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The country sports area alongside the lake will include hunting, shooting, fishing and gun dog scurry together with falconry and ferrets and a live smithing competition each day.
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Hunting, falconry, fishing, rowing and sailing were all considered suitable pastimes for a freeman or noble, which left the more ignoble sports of grappling with others to the lower classes.
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A group of trees formed a screen, behind which the kennels, an old falconry, a pheasantry, and the quarters of the huntsmen were falling into ruins, after being in their day the wonder and admiration of Burgundy.
Sons of the Soil
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This place was afterwards enlarged, and converted into stables for horses; but the old name remained, and now most stables in London are called mews, although the word is derived from falconry, and the hawks have long since flown away.
Old English Sports
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Beyond the main flying arena which is used for falconry displays and training courses, there are numerous barns and aviaries for housing and breeding the birds.
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Employees from Ashford Castle's school of falconry bring hawks and falcons to Rathroeen where they keep vermin and other birds at bay.
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In the country pursuits section there will be falconry displays and terrier, beagle and foxhound demonstrations including one by shepherdess Katy Cropper, of BBC's One Man and his Dog.
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There will be a May Day event featuring a display of falconry and a performance by morris dancers.
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A host of other attractions, including dog-clicker demonstrations, a gundog and falconry display, and the Wilton hunt foxhounds parade excited the crowds.
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The hotel boasts 12 acres of gardens, a falconry centre and its own veg patch serving the restaurant.
The Sun
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Yet, that's about how long falconry - the sport of flying birds of prey at wild quarry - has been around.
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He could fashion striking falconry metaphors by (presumably) "frequently observ [ing] the rich at play.
About an Author, Much Ado
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The medieval hunting tradition of falconry was outlawed in Quebec in the early '80s, and we remain one of the last places in North America to ban the aerial hunt.
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It speaks of jousts, tournaments, wizards, falconry, enchantresses, damsels in distress, wars, quests, and the code of chivalry.
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But it was hard to beat the Falconry Display as far as the kids were concerned, and parents too if they would admit it.
