feather cove
falconer
Roger Chastain, a Feather Cove 1 resident, has a passion for the full-time sport of falconry.
Story By Janet C. Striebel, Photos by Doug Striebel
8
geist comm u nit y
newsletter
A
ccording to the Webster’s Ninth New Collegiate Dictionary, the word falconry refers to the art of training hawks to hunt in cooperation with a person or the sport of hunting with hawks. To Geist resident Roger Chastain, falconry means so much more. “Falconry is more of a lifestyle than a hobby,” says Chastain, officer (secretary) of Indiana Falconer’s Association who has been hunting with hawks for eight years. “Whereas bow and gun hunters put away their equipment at the end of their hunting season, we (falconers) care for our birds 7 days a week, 52 weeks a year, or 365 days of the year. Besides hunting with them, we train them, feed them, house them, and care for their needs. We protect them from predators.”
| d e c e m b e r 2 0 1 2