Suffolk and Berkshire, Henry Charles Howard, Earl of, 1833-1898, Peek, Hedley, Aflalo, Frederick G. (Frederick George), 1870-1918 · London : Lawrence and Bullen · leaf 554
OP.KDIA OF SPORT [heron HERON—As an object of sport the greatgrey heron {Ardea chierea) has come to bealmost forgotten. There was a time, and thatwithin memory of those still living, when heron-hawking was practised by an English falconer,who died in his sixty-second year no longer agothan 1871.… … Hekon. ton, who succeeded Lord Orford as chief of theNorfolk falconers. The heron-hawks were thenkept at High Ash in charge of some Dutchfalconers, and the meets were, according tothe wind, at High Ash, Mundford, CranwichBarn, Northwold Field, and Methwold Field.The heronry at Didlington was in…
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