{"id":391,"date":"2014-08-30T09:39:07","date_gmt":"2014-08-30T09:39:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cassandraclark.co.uk\/casscb\/?p=391"},"modified":"2014-10-08T11:01:04","modified_gmt":"2014-10-08T11:01:04","slug":"sussex-falcons-fly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cassandraclark.co.uk\/casscb\/2014\/08\/30\/sussex-falcons-fly\/","title":{"rendered":"Sussex Falcons fly!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cassandraclark.co.uk\/casscb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/raven.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-410\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cassandraclark.co.uk\/casscb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/raven.jpg\" alt=\"raven\" width=\"425\" height=\"282\" \/><\/a>Another spectacular event at Herstmonceux Castle medieval weekend were the falcons.\u00a0 Not only are they beautiful in flight and endearingly cuddly-looking when sitting quietly\u00a0on the falconer&#8217;s (strong leather) gauntlet they make real the medieval search for food.\u00a0 And these aerial killers are the goods.\u00a0 An eagle hawk can bring down a small deer, enough to feed quite a few hungry knights in a feast or two.\u00a0 We didn&#8217;t see that but we did see an unfortunate mouse fulfilling its destiny.\u00a0 Two gulps,\u00a0a sad, last look at a disappearing tail\u00a0resulted in one\u00a0very satisfied peregrine.\u00a0 Vegetarian they are not. Despite that,\u00a0I decided I&#8217;d really like one but when I found out how much they cost\u00a0I reluctantly\u00a0changed my mind.<\/p>\n<p>Hildegard herself was quite shocked when the falconer in The Parliament of Spies sobbed at\u00a0the death of his newest falcon brought\u00a0over from Norway.\u00a0 It had cost his abbot\u00a0today&#8217;s equivalent of an extremely smart Italian sports car.<\/p>\n<p>A day out with the falconer learning how to fly them is definitely on the books.<\/p>\n<p>This is the sort of research I love.\u00a0 Just as much as sitting in the mead tent&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Somebody asked how I write (nothing to do with mead tents) so tomorrow I&#8217;ll let you into the way I go about it.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another spectacular event at Herstmonceux Castle medieval weekend were the falcons.\u00a0 Not only are they beautiful in flight and endearingly cuddly-looking when sitting quietly\u00a0on the falconer&#8217;s (strong leather) gauntlet they make real the medieval search for food.\u00a0 And these aerial killers are the goods.\u00a0 An eagle hawk can bring down a small deer, enough to feed quite a few hungry knights in a feast or two.\u00a0 We didn&#8217;t see that but we did see an unfortunate mouse fulfilling its destiny.\u00a0 Two gulps,\u00a0a sad, last look at a disappearing tail\u00a0resulted in one\u00a0very satisfied peregrine.\u00a0 Vegetarian they are not. Despite that,\u00a0I decided<\/p>\n<a class=\"more-link\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cassandraclark.co.uk\/casscb\/2014\/08\/30\/sussex-falcons-fly\/\">[Read More...]<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cassandraclark.co.uk\/casscb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cassandraclark.co.uk\/casscb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cassandraclark.co.uk\/casscb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cassandraclark.co.uk\/casscb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cassandraclark.co.uk\/casscb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=391"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.cassandraclark.co.uk\/casscb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":436,"href":"https:\/\/www.cassandraclark.co.uk\/casscb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391\/revisions\/436"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cassandraclark.co.uk\/casscb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cassandraclark.co.uk\/casscb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cassandraclark.co.uk\/casscb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}