On Nature: Unexpected Ramblings on the British Countryside

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BOWSE, to drink; variously spelt ‘bouse’, ‘boose’, ‘bouze’ and ‘booze’.

CADGER, the person who carries the hawk; hence the abbreviated form ‘cad’, a person fit for no other occupation.

LURE, technically a bunch of feathers or couple of wings tied together on a piece of leather and weighted.

MANNING, making a hawk tame by accustoming her to man’s presence.

MEWS, the place where hawks are set down to moult.

QUARRY, the game flown at.

ROUSE, when ‘a hawk lifteth herself up and shaketh herself’ – Boke of St Albans, 1486.

STOOP, the swift descent of a falcon on the quarry from a height.

Recommended falconry courses:

British School of Falconry, Gleneagles, Scotland: www.gleneagles.com.

Frontline Falconry, Auchen Castle, Scotland: www. auchencastle.net; www.frontlinefalconry.co.uk.