falconry is the oldest LAN sport known
to man before you had any gun you use
the bird people get into it for
different reasons some people love to
hunt I love the fact that it’s an animal
then I get to bond with this beautiful
thing
my name is Rodney stocks everyone almost
need the bird man
I grew up Southeast Washington DC I was
selling drugs for maybe 15 years before
I got caught and I ended up going to
jail for a short period of time which
really was the best thing that ever
could have happened to me at that time
oops buddy the mindset that I had before
the Raptors actually came in was I
didn’t care about people didn’t care
about your life didn’t care about my own
life actually eventually you wake up and
when you realize that you’re practicing
insanity you’re doing the same thing
over and over the exact same way and
you’re looking for a different result I
first started working with birds when I
first started working with earth
conservation course was Raptors I needed
a job I needed some sort of paste to
show because I got in an apartment you
don’t get WT selling drugs it wasn’t an
overnight thing not by a long shot
however as you kept going and he started
realizing the more joy that you had was
when you were in a middle of the woods
and the birds were flying XP but
everything else was
destruction and death and negativity
the first purge that I have a flu that
came back to me was a Harris Hawk her
name was Harry I let the bird go and she
flew a good 40 50 yards away from you
and I put my arm out and maybe seven
seconds later
[Music]
the tears was just running and I was so
happy it was the greatest feeling in the
world I had no idea what it was I was
even looking for when I ended up finding
it and from that day on I can take that
bird and go anywhere we can been a crowd
of 10,000 people and as soon as that
Birds see me here she comes
that was the highest highs you could
ever have
that was my fix that animal didn’t care
if I was black-white rich-poor dirty
clean all that animal cared about was
did I care about it that I loved it yes
Edie that’s all that matters whatever
you want seems you can be making money
you can be doing what what I’m not gonna
do with it you can have ten million
dollars I got a bird you want to trade
me your money so I had this relationship
that I had with my bird
I’ll watch your money life outside of
being here is just trying to make people
happy I go to schools hospitals birthday
parties just community outreach my thing
is that encourage educate and excite you
guys know what she loves
I run a program called lookup where we
go out and you just look up I didn’t
know we had all of this because we never
look
[Music]
if I love someone I don’t let him go
just because they’re gone I got this
bird named after my mother I throw this
bird up my mother’s Whitney walking
flying over me watching me like she
would have normally been doing who can
ask for anything more than that
you
[Music]
to man before you had any gun you use
the bird people get into it for
different reasons some people love to
hunt I love the fact that it’s an animal
then I get to bond with this beautiful
thing
my name is Rodney stocks everyone almost
need the bird man
I grew up Southeast Washington DC I was
selling drugs for maybe 15 years before
I got caught and I ended up going to
jail for a short period of time which
really was the best thing that ever
could have happened to me at that time
oops buddy the mindset that I had before
the Raptors actually came in was I
didn’t care about people didn’t care
about your life didn’t care about my own
life actually eventually you wake up and
when you realize that you’re practicing
insanity you’re doing the same thing
over and over the exact same way and
you’re looking for a different result I
first started working with birds when I
first started working with earth
conservation course was Raptors I needed
a job I needed some sort of paste to
show because I got in an apartment you
don’t get WT selling drugs it wasn’t an
overnight thing not by a long shot
however as you kept going and he started
realizing the more joy that you had was
when you were in a middle of the woods
and the birds were flying XP but
everything else was
destruction and death and negativity
the first purge that I have a flu that
came back to me was a Harris Hawk her
name was Harry I let the bird go and she
flew a good 40 50 yards away from you
and I put my arm out and maybe seven
seconds later
[Music]
the tears was just running and I was so
happy it was the greatest feeling in the
world I had no idea what it was I was
even looking for when I ended up finding
it and from that day on I can take that
bird and go anywhere we can been a crowd
of 10,000 people and as soon as that
Birds see me here she comes
that was the highest highs you could
ever have
that was my fix that animal didn’t care
if I was black-white rich-poor dirty
clean all that animal cared about was
did I care about it that I loved it yes
Edie that’s all that matters whatever
you want seems you can be making money
you can be doing what what I’m not gonna
do with it you can have ten million
dollars I got a bird you want to trade
me your money so I had this relationship
that I had with my bird
I’ll watch your money life outside of
being here is just trying to make people
happy I go to schools hospitals birthday
parties just community outreach my thing
is that encourage educate and excite you
guys know what she loves
I run a program called lookup where we
go out and you just look up I didn’t
know we had all of this because we never
look
[Music]
if I love someone I don’t let him go
just because they’re gone I got this
bird named after my mother I throw this
bird up my mother’s Whitney walking
flying over me watching me like she
would have normally been doing who can
ask for anything more than that
you
[Music]
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