Chapter 9: The Kites Turn
The blue kite’s thick, ringed claws pierced effortlessly into the turtledove’s back muscles. Just one stab and the turtledove began to spit out blood from its mouth.

It seems that this big blue kite also has experience in catching turtledoves in the wild. The sandpiper it caught yesterday was not so ferocious. The turtledoves have loose feathers, and when they are chased by birds of prey, they are likely to lose their feathers to escape. In the eyes of the big blue kite, it deliberately increased its intensity and grabbed the turtledove tightly, causing serious injuries.

Yue Feng pulled up the safety rope and retracted the string, then squatted there and let the little eagle plucking the turtledove.

When the feathers on the neck were almost cleaned up, the little eagle tore off a few bites of bloody flesh and swallowed them. Yue Feng then used the same trick again to cover the turtledove with his gloves.

After the eagle loosened its claws, Yue Feng held the eagle up, and then with his left hand, he stuffed the hidden dove into the side bag on his left buttocks.

After several attempts at becoming a falcon, the eagle was fully prepared for hunting. Yue Feng felt that the time was ripe, so he simply gave the eagle some strength. Therefore, he did not even take a few bites of the dove he had just caught before hiding it away.

There is not much food in the eagle’s crop, so it will take a few minutes to rest and then continue hunting. As long as you control the eagle’s physical reserves and don’t kill it, there will be no problem.

No matter it is hawk training or dog training, on the premise of having a certain innate talent, more hunting skills are improved in actual combat. What hawk trainers do is nothing more than to artificially create or provide better opportunities for actual combat while fully understanding the status of their hunting partners.

In this way, Yue Feng walked with the eagle for a few more minutes, took out a kettle from his pocket and gave the eagle a sip of water, then he lay down and continued to search for prey.

Before he knew it, Yue Feng arrived at the area with small trees by the river.

When catching eagles before, Yue Feng found many traces of sand chickens activities here. If he guessed correctly, there should be a group of sand chickens on the side of the river near the bushes.

Yue Feng held the eagle and carefully walked around the shore, then began to search around again.

Suddenly, the little eagle twisted its neck and stared at the bushes dozens of meters away without moving.

Yue Feng knew something was going to happen, so he immediately walked towards the direction of the bushes.

The eagle is now very energetic, but Yue Feng did not train it to call far in order to go hunting as soon as possible. This means that he has to temporarily use a string as a safety rope when releasing the eagle. Otherwise, if the eagle fails to hunt or gets frightened and climbs up a tree and cannot be called back, that would be a big problem.

The advantage of hanging a string as a safety rope is that it is not easy to lose the eagle, but it also has disadvantages.

If the distance is too far and the terrain is too complicated, the safety rope can easily get caught on tree branches and other debris, so if you want to increase the success rate, the best way is to get close enough.

If every prey was like the brave tabby just now, the success rate of escaping would be somewhat scary.

Of course, this is an exception and is not the mainstream in the falconry process. In most cases, the hunter still needs to hold the hawk flat and approach slowly to minimize the impact of the surrounding environment on hunting.

Yue Feng tiptoed until he was within ten meters, then he decisively threw the falcon out.

The Great Green Kites, which had been unable to contain itself for a long time, flew straight towards the bush at the height of the treetop. When it reached the edge of the bush, it suddenly changed direction and smashed down again.

Hurala!
A group of sand chickens suddenly took off from under the bushes. Almost at the same time, screams of sand chickens after being caught by eagles were heard from under the bushes.

This time, the Great Green Harrier caught a very fat male sandpiper. One of its claws held the head of the chicken, and the other claw stepped on the root of the sandpiper’s wing. The two creatures, which were almost the same in weight, showed a huge difference in the battle between them. The magic of the Creator was evident. Yue Feng saw that he had caught it, so he decisively took out the turtledove that had been eaten a few bites not long ago from his backpack, covered the eagle’s claws with gloves, and then placed the turtledove in front of the eagle. The little eagle saw the red meat of the turtledove and immediately loosened its claws, stepped on the turtledove and started to eat it again.

Yue Feng took the chicken off and took out a sock from his backpack. Just like he tied up the hawk before, he tied up the chicken and stuffed it into his backpack.

The eagle caught its prey, and Yue Feng let it eat a few bites of the meat peacefully. Then he covered the prey with his gloves again and took the dove out of its claws.

Lift up the eagle and give it a sip of water. Wait for about three to five minutes. When the eaglet starts to loosen its feathers, which means that the eagle’s strength has recovered, lift up the eagle again and continue moving forward.

Birds like the sand chicken do not fly far and usually move around in familiar areas. There were estimated to be about ten birds in the group just now. After one was caught, the others flew to the bushes across the creek and hid.

Yue Feng had caught countless of these creatures when he was releasing hawks in his previous life, so he was very familiar with their habits. After the hawk had rested, he would continue to stroll around, wandering around outside for a short circle, and then slowly approached the location where the chickens were active.

Two successful hunts in the morning gave the Green Kitten great confidence in hunting. Now, after eating some turtledove meat, although it did not fill him up, it replenished his energy to a certain extent.

The angry green kite soon returned to its state of looking around frantically searching for prey.

From a distance of several dozen meters, the little eagle quickly locked onto the position of the flock of Shaban chickens. Yue Feng repeated the same trick, approached carefully, and threw the falcon in his hand again.

After the raid not long ago, the flock of sand chickens seemed to be a little alert this time. At the same time as the big blue kite made its move, the sand chickens also flew out from the bushes.

The next second, a scene that made Yue Feng extremely excited appeared.

I saw the big blue kite rushing straight towards the place where the chickens were rising. With one flip, it grabbed a sand chicken in mid-air with its strong and powerful claws!

“Fuck!!”

There is an idiom called “a kite turning over”, but most ordinary people have never seen a kite up close, let alone witnessed with their own eyes the extremely difficult hunting maneuver of a kite turning over and grabbing an empty prey while hunting.

Let me put it this way, even among the sparrowhawk species, there are not many individuals (female sparrowhawks) that can perform the kite flip while hunting. It is more common for male sparrowhawks (thin-breasted) to be masters at this, flying gracefully and catching prey skillfully.

After witnessing the kite flip over with his own eyes, Yue Feng excitedly reeled in the line and chased after it.

When they arrived, the Sand Chicken was pinned there again by the Great Blue Kitten, in the same old position, with one claw pressing on its head and the other pinching the base of its wings.

After catching three preys in a row, Yue Feng had already achieved his goal for today. Yue Feng took out the old actor dead turtledove and skillfully replaced it with the second sand chicken.

According to the previous plan, it is time to let the eagle eat its fill and go home to continue to fight.

But after witnessing the kite’s flip with his own eyes, Yue Feng suddenly had the idea of ​​changing his original eagle training plan.

(End of this chapter)