Schedule of Events!
Friday Jan. 15, 2010 at
the Whitten Inn
10:00AM - 5:00PM:
Weathering Yard
4:00PM - 7:00PM: Meet
Registration
4:00PM - 6:00PM: Apprentice Workshop -
Michael Beran
6:00PM - 7:00PM: Happy
Hour/Hor'dourves - Meet & Greet
7:00PM - 7:30PM: Welcome
and THAnks Awards Presentations
7:30PM - 8:30PM: Friday
Evening Guest Speaker - Dave Stevens - Eagles in
Falconry
8:30PM - ?:??PM: Texas'
New Falconry Regulations Q&A Round Table
?:??PM - 11:00PM: Meet &
Greet (Continued)
Saturday Jan. 16, 2010 at
the Whitten Inn
7:00AM - 5:00PM:
Weathering Yard
11:00AM - 2:00PM: Late
Registration
1:30PM -
2:30PM: Building a Coroplast Hawk Box - Chuck
Redding (**See Notes Below)
(*Still
looking for volunteers for more potential
Workshops?)
Saturday Jan. 16, 2010 at
the Taylor County Expo Center - Display Building
5:30PM - 7:00PM: Raffle
Sales Open to Members
7:00PM - 7:30PM: Dinner
Served
7:30PM - 8:00PM: THA
Business & Awards
8:00PM - 8:30PM: Keynote
Speaker -- Lt. Col. Kent Carnie
8:30PM - 9:00PM: Raffle
Sales Continued (30 min.)
9:00PM
- 10:00PM: THA Raffle and Auction
10:00PM:
Closing
(**All
times are approximate?)
Sunday Jan.17, 2010 at the
Whitten Inn
7:00AM - 5:00PM:
Weathering Yard
8:00AM - 10:00AM: Open
Business Meeting
10:30AM -
11:30AM: Installing a Marshall Track Pack Workshop - Chuck
Redding (**See Notes
Below)
(*Still
looking for volunteers for more potential
Workshops?)
Sunday Jan.17, 2010 Dinner
Out
7:00PM: THA Dinner
Out
* Workshops: Please
contact me if you have an idea for a workshop you would like to
volunteer to conduct. (Suggestions include: photography workshop,
training workshop, equipment making workshop ? to include hood making,
leashes, anklets, jesses, squirrel chaps? The list is endless. Do
your part to share your knowledge with someone
else!)
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Workshop Details:
Friday, 4:00 p.m. - Apprentice Workshop --
Michael Beran
Saturday, 1:30 p.m. - Building a Coroplast
Hawk Box -- Chuck Redding
Coroplast boxes are light and strong. I will demonstrate how to make
a box out of a single folded sheet, using a design posted by Charlie
Kaiser, an Arizona falconer. There are Coroplast boxes that sell on
the Internet for over $150. This one will cost you about $25. The
fabrication is simple and very slick, taking about an hour. The box we
build will be donated to the raffle.
If you want to build your own box to take with you, you
will need the following items:
1 - 8' X 4' Coroplast sheet (uncut and unbent)
1 - utility knife
1 - marker pen (Sharpie)
1 - measuring tape
1 - some strips of velcro
1 - tube of Barge cement
Sunday, 10:30am - Installation of Marshall's TrackPack (BackPack)
-- Chuck Redding
I have now participated in six installations on four different
birds* with the TrackPack, and consider this the safest way to mount a
transmitter. My redtail has had the same harness for nearly three
years, through three molts. Many folks are intimidated by the
installation, but it is not difficult, once you've done it once. If
there is at least one person at the Abilene meet with a TrackPack and a
bird to mount it on, I will do an installation. Mike Garcia, who has
done about 200 installations, put on demos at a couple of NAFA meets. I
don't claim to be nearly as smooth as Mike, but I can get the harness
safely on a bird.
*two RT's, a HH, and a Barbary tiercel
