Journal

The Challenges of Live TV by Joe Atkinson Over the years my wife, Cordi, and I have flown our eagles for many different films and TV projects and our knowledge and experience have taken us to many places around the […]

The Queen of the Jungle By Joe Atkinson (all rights reserved) We were sitting around a campfire out in the middle of Wyoming with a film crew, discussing tomorrow’s shot list. We, meaning, Cordi, my wife, the producer and two […]

Queen of the Jungle Part Two Yes, time was ticking away and the pressure was building. One good thing was that, even though there is a large staff at the Philippine Eagle Center, only a few people knew what I […]

The Queen of the Jungle Part 3 I tossed down the lure in front of Mabuhay and she immediately went for it. She grabbed it and flew back up on the perch, looking at me as if to say, “finally […]

The Queen of the Jungle Part Four With both eagles coming off the perches to the lure, the next phone update with Cornell was going to be a much more pleasant conversation, the project was a go. Now I know […]

The Queen of the Jungle Part 5 (all rights reserved) Yes, I am a long way from the cold sagebrush sea of Wyoming, sitting around a campfire. I stood in front of Imbulog’s chamber door and paused for a second; […]

Greetings from Kansas, I arrived yesterday with three eagles in my truck, JH, Davis and the female, Washington. Chase has been in the area for the past two days. His eagle, Dexter, is just the slightest bit heavy so has […]

2010 GOE I started to condition our two eagles for the upcoming trip to Kansas back in mid- September. This year was going to be a very interesting meet because, aside from bringing Jackhammer, I was bringing along a young […]

Gathering of Eagles 2009 With the meet three weeks away I started my preconditioning to get both Jackhammer and Mini-Me in shape. There are lots of theories on how to condition raptors but, in my opinion, nothing gets eagles in […]

If you have never heard of the Festival of Falconry it may be because this was only the second one ever held, the first one in 2007. Plus the Festivals were held in the UK so, living over here in […]