Jumper

They'll spend most of their time in the weathering yard on a bow perch. You give them four to six feet of leash (you learn to tie the falconer's knot real quick - controlling the bird with gloved hand and tying the leash to the bow perch with the other). This is their world for a week or two: They've fed on your gauntlet; now they must jump to it for the priviledge. The first jumps are little more than a foot or two - a nightmarish void for a hawk that not a few days ago was soaring hundreds of feet above field and wood. This is where you laugh at them. They'll bob and weave and crane out to try the snatch the tidbit so as you'd think they couldn't fly at all. Sometimes they do the splits. But once that first jump is done you can move out relatively quickly until you get to the end of the leash. Then jumping will no longer suffice.