![]() The hawk’s apprehension becomes your own. Eventually you don’t see the hawk’s body language at all. ‘To train a hawk you must watch it like a hawk, and so gain the ability to predict what it will do next. Then she fills the freezer with hawk food and unplugs the phone, ready to embark on the long, strange business of trying to train this wildest of animals. She buys Mabel for £800 on a Scottish quayside and takes her home to Cambridge. When her father dies and she is knocked sideways by grief, she becomes obsessed with the idea of training her own goshawk. White’s tortured masterpiece, The Goshawk, which describes White’s struggle to train a hawk as a spiritual contest. She learned the arcane terminology and read all the classic books, including T. Birds of deep woodland, not gardens, they’re the birdwatchers’ dark grail.’Īs a child Helen Macdonald was determined to become a falconer. ![]() ![]() But bulkier, bloodier, deadlier, scarier, and much, much harder to see. ‘In real life, goshawks resemble sparrowhawks the way leopards resemble housecats. ![]()
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