She has started
to develop primaries and secondaries growing in their feather sheaths
5/18/06
20 days old |
and overnight her
back feathers have grown in, and her secondaries have emerged from their
sheaths
5/19/06
21 days old |
I take the young
eyass everywhere I go with me, here she in my lab at the University of
Washington
'
5/19/06
21 days old |
she has constant
exposure to lots of people and dogs
5/20/06
22 days old |
This will be
very beneficial when she is older and accepts several dogs and people
around her as a commonplace occurrence
5/20/06
22 days old |
She can stand up
and take a few wobbly footsteps at this point
5/20/06
22 days old |
she can pull her
food a little but still eats sitting down most of the time
5/20/06
22 days old |
I take her every
where with me to become exposed to many different sights, she likes to
bathe in the sun for a while.
5/21/06
23 days old |
she sits on her
feet and shuffles around most of the time . . .
5/21/06
23 days old |
... and
can pull on a partially opened and cut up quail.
5/22/06
24 days old
|
You can see how
her feathers have come in along her shoulder blades, armpits, tail and
"fingers".
5/23/06
25 days old
|
Here she is all
ready to go... you can seen the pictures I put on the outside of her box,
to show people what she will look like as she gets older.
5/23/06
25 days old
|
Bird shipped off
to another falconer
... |