Chapter 61 Black Eagle
At this moment, Yue Feng only felt that his heart was beating frighteningly fast, like beating like a drum.

People who have not had this experience cannot understand the feeling at that time. Shooting down a top-quality eagle with your own hands is like a fisherman catching a hundred-pound bluefin eagle with his own hands. This feeling is poison to those who love eagles.

The eagle’s claws had been caught by Yue Feng, but it still didn’t stop. It kept chirping and pecking at Yue Feng with its sharp beak.

Yue Feng suppressed his excitement and carefully wrapped the eagle with the eagle coat. After the big red eagle with an iron back was fastened, he once again marveled at the excellent quality of the eagle.

Side by side with the ordinary yellow chicken hawk next to it, the chicken hawk looks as skinny as an underdeveloped cub, while this iron-backed red one has a broad chest and very developed muscles on both sides of the keel. Even if it is wrapped in a hawk coat, its outline can still be seen.

Yue Feng looked up at the sky outside. Before he knew it, it was almost noon.

In theory, Yue Feng had successfully completed the eagle hunting mission, which took two and a half days.

But Yue Feng hesitated for a moment and did not rush down the mountain to go home immediately.

Anyone who has experience in falconry knows that falconry has peaks and troughs. You may wait on the mountain for seven or eight days and catch nothing, but wait until one day the wind direction is right and a flock of eagles passes by, and you can catch a lot in a single day.

Starting from the big buzzard in the morning, Yue Feng has caught three big babies in the whole morning. This shows that today is a good day and there is a possibility of more eagles.

Anyway, all the preliminary preparations have been done. If I go home at this time, I can only rest at home. I might as well stay in the mountain for half a day. If I am lucky in the afternoon, I may meet other unlucky guys and catch one or two more.

Having made up his mind, Yue Feng took out the steamed buns and pickles he had brought from his backpack and ate them slowly with the water in the bottle.

After eating and drinking, Yue Feng observed the surrounding area, then came out of the shack and inspected the traps.

The gains from the arrest also indirectly verified Yue Feng’s guess.

Among the four self-falling nets, two nets were triggered and actually caught two old kites of good quality.

Looking at the old kite with purple light on its head and face, Yue Feng had no choice but to let it go.

These guys are just like the big buzzard in the morning. They are all adult old guys who are more than three years old. Although they have strong muscles and bones, they are too wild and unruly to be tamed.

Yue Feng released the two old kites, then put the net back on and strolled back to the shack.

Another long wait.

There was no reaction during the noon period, but starting from around 2:00 p.m., the birds began to show various warning signs.

Yue Feng was busy in the afternoon. Old kites, common buzzards, large buzzards, and even a two-year-old pigeon tiger came to Yue Feng’s falconry one after another.

The first three types of birds of prey have been mentioned, and I will briefly mention the last one here.

The pigeon-tiger mentioned by the falconer is scientifically called the peregrine falcon. The male is called a pigeon-tiger and the female is called a duck-tiger. The peregrine falcon is also a kind of falcon, but it is mostly raised for fun by princes and nobles, rather than used for work by ordinary falconers.

How to understand this sentence? We have to start with the hunting methods of different types of birds of prey.

Like the sparrowhawk, sparrowhawk, goshawk, these are all birds of prey of the genus Accipitridae, they are all forest-dwelling birds of prey, natural opportunists, mainly hunting by short-distance sneak attacks and pounces. In the jargon of falconers, these are long-legged short-winged eagles, which are trained and taken out to work, and are efficient and practical for hunting.

The peregrine falcon belongs to the genus Falcon of the family Falconidae. It is a raptor of the wilderness that likes to live in places with wide views such as wilderness and seaside.

Although they also launch sneak attacks, they mostly rely on their extremely high diving flight speeds to chase down prey.

Their wings are sickle-shaped like a swallow’s, and their speed in level flight is low. When hunting, they are good at gaining the advantage of flying altitude, exchanging altitude for speed, and using the ultra-high speed of diving to attack the target.

In the eyes of older falconers, this long-winged eagle works on the ground, has a slow start speed when hunting, and has much less claw power than an eagle, so it is not practical to use it to catch prey alone.

The more reliable way of playing is to use a hunting falcon and a small dog to play falcon hunting in relatively open terrain such as plains or mountain meadows.

There is an idiom called “兔起鹘落”, which refers to the scene of the ancient rabbit and falcon surrounding.
In the early years, some princes and nobles would raise this thing. They did not seek hunting efficiency, nor did they care about the small gains. They just wanted to experience the excitement of hunting.

Yue Feng can barely make ends meet now, but he is not so arrogant as to raise a falcon, so even though this two-year-old little falcon looks good, Yue Feng released it without hesitation.

Before he knew it, the sun was setting and it was evening. Seeing that there was no chance left, Yue Feng came out of the shed and started to dismantle the nets and ropes on the field.

Nowadays, there are very few people who know how to catch and train hawks within a hundred miles around. Yue Feng was not afraid of others knowing about his falconry site in Hutouling, so he just took down the nets, ropes, and lures and took them away. The other net frames and ground stakes made from local materials were all left where they were.

After simply packing up his belongings, Yue Feng rushed towards the place where the trap was set.

There was nothing unusual in the first few places. Yue Feng took out the bait and the net one by one. When he was about to fall into the last net, an accident happened.

More than thirty meters away, Yue Feng suddenly saw a strange pure black eagle, which suddenly rose into the sky from the middle of the net. In the blink of an eye, it flew to a height of dozens of meters, circled in the air for several circles, and soon disappeared in the southwest direction.

Holy shit! What the hell?
Yue Feng let out a low cry, took big strides and ran towards the last trap.

When I got closer, I saw that the four self-trapping nets were still hanging intact. The new pigeon that had just been replaced in the middle that morning was still breathing its last breath, spitting blood and shivering weakly.

It seemed that Yue Feng must have come at a very coincidental time. The eagle had just entered the net enclosure and stepped on the pigeon, but before it had time to start eating, it was bumped by Yue Feng and fled in panic.

This pigeon was definitely dead. Yue Feng held the pigeon in his hand and observed it. Then he plucked all the pigeon’s feathers with his own hands. Finally, he found a fatal wound on the back behind the neck.

The pigeon was scratched by this strange eagle, leaving two large and two small wedge-shaped blood holes at the base of its wings on its back.

Yue Feng used his hands to indicate the locations of the four blood holes, and imagined the posture of an eagle’s claws grabbing a pigeon in his head.

Yue Feng was shocked by this gesture.

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