Who We Are.
We are a "family friendly" falconry display team based in Hampshire, England. With facilities at Brambridge Park Garden Centre, Kiln Lane, Brambridge, near Winchester, Hampshire. For directions to Brambridge Park, please choose the lnk on the left.
In addition to our facility at Brambridge Park, we provide falconry displays at shows, events and parties across the South of England and Home Counties. For a list of our current shows choose "Where to See Us".
To find out how to book us for your event, or for information on our falconry courses and experiences, choose "Experience Falconry".
Phil
My name is Phil and I am the founder of Phil's Falconry Display Team, bringing you the "FalconHigh" experience. I have over eighteen years experience of falconry.
Judy
Judy Wrighte has been teaching biology and key skills for the last seven years and has a master’s degree in biology. She has been training and flying birds of prey since 2005 with Falconhigh and has been Lantra assessed to own and fly birds of prey.
Judy says:
‘My love and interest in birds is thanks to my Grandad who used to take my brothers and me on endless walks looking at the wildlife. I wouldn’t say my Grandad knew a lot about the wildlife in the meadow but he gave me an appreciation for it and the feeling of freedom and excitement during those endless summer holidays.
In October 2005 I completed Phil’s Falconry Course at the University of Winchester and haven’t looked back since. I have been so lucky to have had the opportunity to be an apprentice falconer over the last four years with Falconhigh, training and flying so many different birds, taking part in lots of displays and in many different settings. I was also fortunate enough to do six months voluntary work with the Hawk Conservancy.
Falconry has changed my life! Birds of prey have an awe-inspiring grace about them and they have a strangely calming influence. I often get asked what it is I love about falconry that makes me so completely and utterly obsessed with it (just ask my family and friends). It’s difficult to sum up but I think the falconer and author Tim Gallagher conjures up that feeling when he writes:
“I can’t say why exactly, but something about falconry completely captured my passion and spirit as a twelve year old and has held me enthralled ever since. The first time I first put a falcon on my fist, no other interest ever came close to competing with falconry. The magical, intuitive bond that develops between a falconer and a trained raptor is a great attraction for me and is one of the things that keeps me getting up before dawn, day after day” ’.
(Falcon Fever, 2008. Houghton Mifflin books).’