North Country’s Finest: Falconer

For more than five years, Ken Aubin of Watertown has been training in the art of falconry - using birds to hunt game.

His Harris Hawk sidekick, Zap, helps him combine his interest in medieval history with a north country native’s love of hunting.

Ken says having a trained Hawk in the woods makes every hunt exciting.

“When you go out with a bird, you’ve got to worry about the way the bird is acting that day, the way the game is responding, whether the game realizes how the bird is going to react. Then you’ve got yourself to keep in check at the same time. So there’s so many variables that every hunt is different,” said Aubin.

Ken often shows off his fine feathered flock to kids and grownups alike.

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