Video

[Kurt Gürsu]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PJ8npKfEJZ0

[Kurt Gürsu]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u_zHaoMT0Bs

[Kurt Gürsu]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k1Cr023PDz4

[Kurt Gürsu]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K3KRmywff1I

[Birdman79]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K3KRmywff1I

That bird tore the sky up...

[Kurt Gürsu]

That bird tore the sky up...

She is something huh?
7-8 months old.
The video is from couple of weeks ago, taken in Ankara.
She is rushing her tumbles because of her age.
Not too sure of her self yet.
She should spread the tumbles out a little bit each day and get her climb together as she gets more air time but even now she is pretty impressive.
It would be interesting to see where her performance will be by next year this time.

This one is taken last year from the same loft of a different young bird at that time.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0RGIYRM-siQ

[Kurt Gürsu]

Not the best performance but they have done a nice job of zooming into the dive to show one of the charge styles in detail.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KM6r4ZpzlGQ

[grg]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZoT-To1ILoI

Takla in Siberia, Omsk City 2013

[grg]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qUqbHjPNUDc
Takla in Siberia, Young birds 2012

[Kurt Gürsu]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZoT-To1ILoI

Takla in Siberia, Omsk City 2013

Greg,
Is that you?
If not, is that man a Yakut?
He has very nice looking birds.
There are a few Syrian and Iraqi birds in there also.
I like his whites, the dirty blues (dumanlı) and the dirty blacks (not the dark black ones, though i'm sure those are nice birds also).
There is also blue self there that caught my eye.
I think it was labeled Boss.
Is that the English word boss or the word is boss kind of like we say in Turkish as Boz?
I like the place also.
Siberia always has a nice place in the hearts of Turks.
Thank you for sharing.

[grg]

Greg,
Is that you?
If not, is that man a Yakut?

Kurt ,
It is not me. It is Andrei Fedorenko - the Russian guy and him could be the Siberian kind of Soprano family, to my best guess....
The English names of T.T. in his clips translated from German in a free way and could be any kind of mistakes. I had talked to Andrei lately and he kindly gave me a couple hours of lecture for many details of preparing and flying Taklas . His knowledge came from Turks from Germany and group of Germans visited his place not long time ago.....

[Kurt Gürsu]

Thank you Greg.
The birds might have come from Germany also.
The combination of varieties and colors seem like it.
I might very well be wrong of course.
Obviously the same birds can be gathered from other places including Turkey.
Soprano comment cracked me up.