This was fun. Years ago, I had a friend who was a certified wildlife rescuer and rehabber. He helped with all species, but his favourite were the birds of prey. I learned a lot from him, and got to be trusted by the birds. this is an awesome experience.
Mr Mike Rowe is always so entertaining. I can honestly say that everything I have watched with Mike involved beit a show like this or just him being interviewed he has the ability to draw a viewer in and make it so interesting. Thank you Mr Rowe for so many years of entertainment.
Growing up in the 1970s on the Westside of Los Angeles, our next door neighbor was a licensed falconer and owned a Red Tail Hawk and a Great Horned Owl as pets and hunting birds. He also was given a Golden Eagle by the Fish and Game because someone had shot the Eagle and it needed to be rehabilitated. So, as a elementary school aged kid I had these great birds just over the fence in my neighbor's yard mere feet away. I was lucky enough to go with him to fly the owl at a nearby strawberry farm when there were still some farms in Los Angeles. This one was in El Segundo which is the town next to where I grew up in Westchester with LAX airport separating the two neighborhoods. So that should give you an idea of how we were in the city and not in the suburbs or country. That night the owl caught a gopher and a 4 foot gopher snake in the strawberry farm. About a year later when I was in 6th grade I got a Raven chick about 6 weeks old from my neighbor so that I could raise it and have as a pet. I hand fed the Raven with a syringe until it could feed itself and I helped it learn to fly and had to climb a lot of rooftops and trees until it learned to fly well and to return home. It was a great experience and a fun pet to have. I've thought about getting into falconry but there aren't very many places to fly and hunt in L.A. anymore. I'd have to drive an hour or two so that I could exercise the bird and let him/her hunt a couple times a week. It's doable but I'm not sure if it's too much trouble and unfair to the bird.
@@amandajackson668 -- the reason for doing that is the risk of the raptor(s) eating a wild rabbit or gopher, vole, dove, etc... and getting poisoned from the pesticides and other poisons and diseases from eating what they used to catch. It depends on where you are. If I remember correctly they were out in or near Bakersfield CA. which is a couple hours drive from where I live in L.A. . Bakersfield is kinda sorta part of the Central Valley which is farmland for hundreds of square miles but, Bakersfield also has miles and miles of open land with thousands of oil rigs pumping oil from the ground 24/7 365 and I mean thousands of them. The soil is contaminated in those areas and a lot of mining happened there 100 years ago and that affects the soil. You just don't want to risk your raptor's life after spending so much time and money training it.
I grew up in Westchester at the same time. I remember my dad's story from one of his walks to work at Hughes. He got scratched on the head by a burrowing owl during breeding season. He went to the company nurse to get treatment. This incident was brought up during a factory safety meeting my dad attended, and a coworker made fun of him. Not to much later the coworker making fun of my dad got scratched on the head while on a lunchtime jog. My dad got the last laugh! The Hughes Airport (now Playa Vista) used to have bean fields and jack rabbits running around. The word was the Hughes land was taxed as agricultural instead of industrial by growing beans.
@@ZER0ZER0SE7EN --- I grew up in Westchester also. What a small world. My grandfather and my father both worked for Hughes. I grew up riding my bmx and my dirtbike in the bean fields at Centinela and Sepulveda on the Eastside of Sepulveda across the street from Dinah's restaurant. There used to be a perk pond that bubbled up from Centinela Creek which runs along the 405 between Centinela and connects to Ballona Creek near the Marina Freeway and goes underground near La Cienega and Manchester. But, those bean fields were all one open space before Hughes built the plant off Jefferson. The Ballona Wetlands, used to be all the Marina Del Rey property, all the Hughes property and across Jefferson from Hughes was wetlands except for a large family farm called Lopez Ranch and they had a farm stand that they sold fresh farm grown produce and fruit from that farm until around 1981 or so. All of that property as well as the airport fields where they tore out the houses near the golf course and at the beach between Pershing and Vista Del Mar, the Dumbarton, and Kentwood fields all still have owls, hawks, ravens, fox, coyote, raccoons, jack rabbits, cotton tails, bobcats, various snakes, cranes, herons, all the shorebirds and opossums, etc... . Even with the development of Playa Vista and all the new homes on the Kentwood / Dumbarton and Loyola bluffs, Westchester Parkway, there is still an abundance of wildlife living in those fields and anywhere they can find in the neighborhood. Did you go to Westchester High? What year? I graduated in '83 and have older brother and sisters all went to O.Wright Jr. High, and Saint Jerome's and lived off La Tijera and Osage right at the Inglewood border.
@@13_13kYes, funny finding someone on the world wide web from the same time and place. The empty field across Sepulveda is now the Howard Hughes Center with high-rise condos and office buildings and a shopping mall with a theater. Dinah's is still there. I remember seeing polliwogs in the little creek that ran along Centinela west of Sepulveda. There were tree frogs about the size of a thumb nail in Westchester. Strange to think about frogs in trees and owls in burrows in the ground. Our next door neighbors were the original owners from 1947 and watched the progress of their house getting built. They said for their first years living there there were bean fields north of them across the street. This was near the back side of Orville Wright. The Hughes company had to donate the land they owned west of Lincoln so the Playa Vista development could get approval. This land west of Lincoln had egrets and herons. I remember going to the Lopez Ranch before Halloween because they had so many pumpkins displayed for sale. The field at the end of Dunbarton is where I rode my bike or walked around, and the way my dad walked to work in Building 15. Building 15 was where the Hughes Hercules (Spruce Goose) was built. The biggest wooden airplane built in the biggest wooden building. I remember seeing the movie Swing Shift being filmed there one night using bright spotlights from above. Building 15 is now painted gray instead of light green, and is now a Google worksite. Loyola University had cotton-tails that sat eating on a big lawn and lived in the hedges along the drive. I graduated Westchester High in 1981, and my sister 3 years later. My girlfriend at the time lived near Osage Ave Elementary and graduated Westchester High in 1983 like you. Been great reminiscing!
Perfect timing for this episode. I grew up just North of Lodi, CA. Although the harvest (crush) is finished, there is still a lot of unpicked grapes slowly fermenting in the field. To watch all the drunk sparrows and blackbirds is an entertaining sight.
Hey Mikey! I liked the video very much. A different way to utilize your talents and sink one's "Talons" into. Mikey, thank you for all your team and you do. Cheers, Mate.
Yes, she was lovely. Just my guess here, but I don't think anybody is putting moves on Becca without her express permission. She is not a knife-wielding, black-belt falconer for nothing, lol.
Thank you Mike Rowe. I'm an ultimate low in life and this show helps distract me. Wow i was more interested in Becka! Gorgeous, smart, tough etc. my gawd!
I live in the northern part of the San Joaquin valley and we've been seeing a falcon the past month, hunting our pastures, that we couldn't identify. That Gyr x Peregrine looks near identical just not as big. Now I'm wondering if someone lost a trained falcon somehow.
@matthewhaverkamp8657 if it is.. it has the most unique markings I've ever seen on one. It would also be the first one seen on this property in over 30 years.
@@RippieFarmer It's not uncommon to have some marking variations between individual birds within the same species of bird. It could also be a juvenile bird looking for a place to call home. Neat to hear that they could be back in your area.
I've seen car dealerships use the sound of a falcon playing on a speaker outside to deter birds. less birds = less poop on the cars. Why don't the wineries do this?
I’ve never witnessed anyone that’s a bigger jerk around animals besides this guy (except maybe Steve Irwin who made his money-whoring paychecks on antagonizing animals, then finally got what was coming to him; or my old neighbor who used to kick his dog) … but hey, anything to try to get a laugh and collect another paycheck.
Shot down in Flames! LOL!! I would have hit on Becca too! She's an ultra babe! But I think she was more interested in your producer, for some strange reason...Oh well! It just goes to show, you never know what turns them on! LOL!!
Its a bird! its a plane! its Mike to entertain!
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You just made me shoot Dr Pepper out of my nose with this one! Lol they need to pin this one
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Mike is such a wholesome person thanks a lot mike for all you do
This was fun.
Years ago, I had a friend who was a certified wildlife rescuer and rehabber.
He helped with all species, but his favourite were the birds of prey.
I learned a lot from him, and got to be trusted by the birds.
this is an awesome experience.
Mr Mike Rowe is always so entertaining. I can honestly say that everything I have watched with Mike involved beit a show like this or just him being interviewed he has the ability to draw a viewer in and make it so interesting. Thank you Mr Rowe for so many years of entertainment.
Did you watch dirty jobs? I watched every season, it was awesome! Also, his VO narration of Deadliest Catch is epic, makes the show!!!!
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Awesome job to have. Having a bird of prey to do your work is absolutely amazing.
Growing up in the 1970s on the Westside of Los Angeles, our next door neighbor was a licensed falconer and owned a Red Tail Hawk and a Great Horned Owl as pets and hunting birds. He also was given a Golden Eagle by the Fish and Game because someone had shot the Eagle and it needed to be rehabilitated.
So, as a elementary school aged kid I had these great birds just over the fence in my neighbor's yard mere feet away.
I was lucky enough to go with him to fly the owl at a nearby strawberry farm when there were still some farms in Los Angeles. This one was in El Segundo which is the town next to where I grew up in Westchester with LAX airport separating the two neighborhoods. So that should give you an idea of how we were in the city and not in the suburbs or country.
That night the owl caught a gopher and a 4 foot gopher snake in the strawberry farm.
About a year later when I was in 6th grade I got a Raven chick about 6 weeks old from my neighbor so that I could raise it and have as a pet. I hand fed the Raven with a syringe until it could feed itself and I helped it learn to fly and had to climb a lot of rooftops and trees until it learned to fly well and to return home. It was a great experience and a fun pet to have.
I've thought about getting into falconry but there aren't very many places to fly and hunt in L.A. anymore. I'd have to drive an hour or two so that I could exercise the bird and let him/her hunt a couple times a week. It's doable but I'm not sure if it's too much trouble and unfair to the bird.
Now they don’t catch anything but scare the animals away then get fed.
@@amandajackson668 -- the reason for doing that is the risk of the raptor(s) eating a wild rabbit or gopher, vole, dove, etc... and getting poisoned from the pesticides and other poisons and diseases from eating what they used to catch.
It depends on where you are. If I remember correctly they were out in or near Bakersfield CA. which is a couple hours drive from where I live in L.A. . Bakersfield is kinda sorta part of the Central Valley which is farmland for hundreds of square miles but, Bakersfield also has miles and miles of open land with thousands of oil rigs pumping oil from the ground 24/7 365 and I mean thousands of them. The soil is contaminated in those areas and a lot of mining happened there 100 years ago and that affects the soil.
You just don't want to risk your raptor's life after spending so much time and money training it.
I grew up in Westchester at the same time. I remember my dad's story from one of his walks to work at Hughes. He got scratched on the head by a burrowing owl during breeding season. He went to the company nurse to get treatment. This incident was brought up during a factory safety meeting my dad attended, and a coworker made fun of him. Not to much later the coworker making fun of my dad got scratched on the head while on a lunchtime jog. My dad got the last laugh!
The Hughes Airport (now Playa Vista) used to have bean fields and jack rabbits running around. The word was the Hughes land was taxed as agricultural instead of industrial by growing beans.
@@ZER0ZER0SE7EN --- I grew up in Westchester also. What a small world. My grandfather and my father both worked for Hughes. I grew up riding my bmx and my dirtbike in the bean fields at Centinela and Sepulveda on the Eastside of Sepulveda across the street from Dinah's restaurant. There used to be a perk pond that bubbled up from Centinela Creek which runs along the 405 between Centinela and connects to Ballona Creek near the Marina Freeway and goes underground near La Cienega and Manchester.
But, those bean fields were all one open space before Hughes built the plant off Jefferson. The Ballona Wetlands, used to be all the Marina Del Rey property, all the Hughes property and across Jefferson from Hughes was wetlands except for a large family farm called Lopez Ranch and they had a farm stand that they sold fresh farm grown produce and fruit from that farm until around 1981 or so.
All of that property as well as the airport fields where they tore out the houses near the golf course and at the beach between Pershing and Vista Del Mar, the Dumbarton, and Kentwood fields all still have owls, hawks, ravens, fox, coyote, raccoons, jack rabbits, cotton tails, bobcats, various snakes, cranes, herons, all the shorebirds and opossums, etc... . Even with the development of Playa Vista and all the new homes on the Kentwood / Dumbarton and Loyola bluffs, Westchester Parkway, there is still an abundance of wildlife living in those fields and anywhere they can find in the neighborhood.
Did you go to Westchester High? What year? I graduated in '83 and have older brother and sisters all went to O.Wright Jr. High, and Saint Jerome's and lived off La Tijera and Osage right at the Inglewood border.
@@13_13kYes, funny finding someone on the world wide web from the same time and place.
The empty field across Sepulveda is now the Howard Hughes Center with high-rise condos and office buildings and a shopping mall with a theater. Dinah's is still there. I remember seeing polliwogs in the little creek that ran along Centinela west of Sepulveda. There were tree frogs about the size of a thumb nail in Westchester. Strange to think about frogs in trees and owls in burrows in the ground.
Our next door neighbors were the original owners from 1947 and watched the progress of their house getting built. They said for their first years living there there were bean fields north of them across the street. This was near the back side of Orville Wright.
The Hughes company had to donate the land they owned west of Lincoln so the Playa Vista development could get approval. This land west of Lincoln had egrets and herons.
I remember going to the Lopez Ranch before Halloween because they had so many pumpkins displayed for sale.
The field at the end of Dunbarton is where I rode my bike or walked around, and the way my dad walked to work in Building 15. Building 15 was where the Hughes Hercules (Spruce Goose) was built. The biggest wooden airplane built in the biggest wooden building. I remember seeing the movie Swing Shift being filmed there one night using bright spotlights from above. Building 15 is now painted gray instead of light green, and is now a Google worksite.
Loyola University had cotton-tails that sat eating on a big lawn and lived in the hedges along the drive.
I graduated Westchester High in 1981, and my sister 3 years later.
My girlfriend at the time lived near Osage Ave Elementary and graduated Westchester High in 1983 like you.
Been great reminiscing!
Perfect timing for this episode.
I grew up just North of Lodi, CA. Although the harvest (crush) is finished, there is still a lot of unpicked grapes slowly fermenting in the field. To watch all the drunk sparrows and blackbirds is an entertaining sight.
Thank you for these videos.. love watching them ;-)
Here in Denmark, we call murmuration "sort sol", which translates to "black sun" ;-)
A new "Somebody's Gotta Do It" AWESOME!!! I love it, it's a real treat!!!
Mike! Becca is an awesome woman! You should look into what she has done in her life! You would be amazed!!
Awww thank you!!!
Hey Mikey! I liked the video very much. A different way to utilize your talents and sink one's "Talons" into.
Mikey, thank you for all your team and you do. Cheers, Mate.
Great pun😂
Producersan was putting the moves on the karate girl. LoL
Yes, she was lovely. Just my guess here, but I don't think anybody is putting moves on Becca without her express permission. She is not a knife-wielding, black-belt falconer for nothing, lol.
Amazing! 👍
Beautiful birds. Amazing training. Mike did good for his first try.
Black belt falconry knife maker and hot. Win win win
Thank you Mike Rowe.
I'm an ultimate low in life and this show helps distract me.
Wow i was more interested in Becka! Gorgeous, smart, tough etc. my gawd!
Beautiful bird
Becca is beautiful, smooth and elegant. Mike was good too
This is bad ass! Always was interested in falconry.
Mighty Mike back again 💪
Mike you rock! Peace
I live in the northern part of the San Joaquin valley and we've been seeing a falcon the past month, hunting our pastures, that we couldn't identify.
That Gyr x Peregrine looks near identical just not as big. Now I'm wondering if someone lost a trained falcon somehow.
It's probably a wild Paragrine Falcon. I highly doubt a falconer would lose thier bird like that. It's a real treat to see one hunting.
@matthewhaverkamp8657 if it is.. it has the most unique markings I've ever seen on one. It would also be the first one seen on this property in over 30 years.
@@RippieFarmer It's not uncommon to have some marking variations between individual birds within the same species of bird. It could also be a juvenile bird looking for a place to call home. Neat to hear that they could be back in your area.
Maybe they could thin out the rats with wings we have at the boardwals in NJ.😅
Soo cool bro!
They all fell in love 😂
Becca's is the find of the entire life for any man. I'm also in love 😅🙈
Cool job!!
Modern problems require Ancient solutions
Um, more Becca please....😀
And Kailyn! 😍
Excellent video 👍
If you have never seen a Peregrine Falcon on a dive at around 200 MPH, it is one of the most awesome sights you will ever see in your life.
thank you MIKE ROWE for many years of entertainment
Very cool and educational great segment.
Every time and woman pulls meat out of my toes and feeds it to me .. well…I’m pretty well hooked.😂 too funny
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Very intresting video and fascinating people. Thanks Mike.
i think this is my favorite series on youtube. i loved dirty jobs n this is better.
(1) Controlled natural predation; one can only imagine how many other permutations of this method can be harnessed???
I am a birder and now I may become a falconer. This is the coolest job ever!
Everything is good. You "attacked it with confidence". 🤣👍
Sweet! A great bird doing great work! Thanks Mike!
You're awesome Mr. Rowe.
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I'm glade the speed of the Falcons didn't get left out.
I believe they are the fastest Animal to ever live.
That’s awesome!!!
Thanks Mike
Love this!
Great show. Where do you buy Becca’s knives?
You have an awesome job!
Way to hit on the superhot girl, Mr. Rowe.
Oh my one word, BECCA ! That’s all I’ve got to say.
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How interesting!
Cool!
black belt falconer with custom knife;
TRIPLE DANGER 😄 yep, that's one person you don't want to mess with
Love it
👍 to the bird for giving us his hard flapped footage.
Starlings are an invasive species, good job falcon.
I think Mike was alittle smitten.
A few of the crew were, it seems!
Some of the audience as well.
enclosure built and permits submitted ❤😂
Very entertaining especially the lesson in flirting. 🎶💐💖
As a male, looks like I need to get into falconeering…amazing women here
I worked for the company that had the contract at JFK for about 8 seasons until PANYNJ canceled it. Being at JFK made a fun hobby even better.
This is the only time I've watched Mike Rowe do a job and gotten jealous of him LOL.
I've seen car dealerships use the sound of a falcon playing on a speaker outside to deter birds. less birds = less poop on the cars. Why don't the wineries do this?
Great job Mike I didn’t know the falconers can I have two girlfriends at one great job by the falconer and the Falcons thanks for the video
What are they throwing.
How did they get the birds to train from the get go.
One could say that they’re Dragon Slayers
How long do the birds stay away
A "falcon" black belt.
Looked tired that morning tho....
WHAT were the PESTS eatin' the grapes...? Did they SAY and I just missed IT? LmMFaO! ;) :P :o)
the migrating birds at the beginning, falcons hunt them
@@jansonshrock2859 ty!
I thought I Mike refer to them as starlings.
Get two 10week old puppies it's like hudting flys
You still have an AOL acct? That's cute
Lol, how much are drones gonna be worth?
now thats a lucky man working with 2 beautiful women
Beka is absolutely phenomenal. She needs a husband send her my way…. lol
Mike might be a little smitten with Becca.
dont misunderstand my stupidity as bravery ....
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lol... AOL? really? 😝
Why even visit California at this point.
IT"S A TOUGH LIFE IN A THIRD WORLD COUNTRY MIKE! AT LEAST WE DON"T SHOOT CHILDREN INSIDE SCHOOLS.
I’ve never witnessed anyone that’s a bigger jerk around animals besides this guy (except maybe Steve Irwin who made his money-whoring paychecks on antagonizing animals, then finally got what was coming to him; or my old neighbor who used to kick his dog) … but hey, anything to try to get a laugh and collect another paycheck.
You're probably one of those people that sits in the roadway protesting oil use. Crawl back under your rock.
Shot down in Flames! LOL!! I would have hit on Becca too! She's an ultra babe! But I think she was more interested in your producer, for some strange reason...Oh well! It just goes to show, you never know what turns them on! LOL!!
Cool!