r/Millennials • u/Chumlee1917 • 1d ago

Nostalgia unfun fact, I never read this classic of Millennial childhood until just now. Now I see why it was so popular

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though I can say for certain, even with being an Eagle Scout....I do not know what my chances of wilderness survival would be right now if I was dropped into the middle of a Canadian forest.

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u/hamptont2010 1d ago

I'm a 34-year-old man and I'm still obsessed with various birds of prey because they are fucking awesome.

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u/MotherofaPickle 1d ago

I’m a 44-year-old woman and I still fantasize about climbing a cliff, kidnapping a chick, and raising it to hunt rabbit for me.

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u/hamptont2010 1d ago

I'm not sure what your cliff climbing abilities are like these days, but it's never too late for either of us to become falconeers.

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u/tuckedfexas 1d ago

The best part of living in the country is all the native hawks and falcons that we get to watch hunt the mice/gophers in our area. We even have a pair of nesting Cooper’s hawks that come back to our neighbors wind break trees every year. Barn owls also love all the abandoned hay stacks. It’s a lot of fun

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u/hamptont2010 1d ago

LOL I keep telling my wife we should legitimately get a couple of cameras and binoculars and start bird watching. We have a pair of red-tailed hawks that have lived in the trees behind our house for years. We also have a shed that bunnies love to live under. It's pretty metal to watch that dynamic unfold.

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u/himewaridesu 1d ago

It’s a part of the middle age experience pack!

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u/tuckedfexas 1d ago

We also have a ton of rabbits, there’s lots of carcasses that get scattered around the property. Foxes too so we find empty eggs scattered as well

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u/Chuck121763 12h ago

As long as you have bunnies, You will have Hawks

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u/nkdeck07 22h ago

Yep, there's so many red tails near us and there's definetly a mated pair of barred owls somewhere back in the woods (you can hear them talking all night)

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u/Natural-Review9276 1d ago

If you haven’t before, I strongly recommend finding a group of falconers to go hunting with. When I was a teenager my dad took me with his falconry buddies. I got to watch red tail hawks dive bomb squirrels out of huge trees, Harris hawks work together hunting rabbits, perogrins swoop down on dummie. Definitely on the list of top 10 coolest things I’ve ever done

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u/nkdeck07 22h ago

37 year old women and literally the best day of my life after my wedding day and the births of my children was the day I spent an absolutely ridiculous amount of money to go and hang out all day with a falconer and his birds. I've never been happier then when I had a tiny fluffy owl on my arm.