A little bragg

I was going to have a rant about the weather, in the last week we have cancelled 2 experience days, 2 hunting days, and 2 introductions, and I was feelin g a little bit sorry for myself, but then I had a look back through my diary, and actually we've had the busiest Autumn period we've ever had, and we still look to have at least five sesions a week booked in between now and Christmas (and if you want to make a  a booking over the Cjristmas period I would suggest you get in soon as the diary is filling up rapidly), so instead I decided to feel slightly (well very )smug instead and look at how well things have been going.
Even allowing for a very poor summer where we missed out on a lot of tourist work due to the weather we've averaged more than 16 people a week through here over the year, and are set to be just short of 600 offsite displays,
We are up to a full compliment of 18 birds all of whom have been fantastically reliable (except a little blip from Morwenna and Agravanes 3 week summer Holiday behind Houndtor)and a real joy to work with.
 We now have full family involvement as Aly is working full time with me, and Georgie is in charge of day to day management of the ferret racing team (our new venture), and are lucky to have the great skills of Richard Lammin back helping us out when needs be.
We've re introduced owl  session by popular request, and in a few weeks time will be in a position to take clients out to see Bors, our hunting owl in action,
My own falconry has been great to with some fantastic flights from Sebille and Morguasse at crows, and a huge amount of fun hunting magpies with Mordred, and have been adding these to the team on hunting days to make things even more exciting.
So at the moment weather may be putting a damper on business but all in all things here at Dartmoor Hawking are great, and getting better all the time