Late night for the hawks.

Wednesday, September 24, 2014.   A quiet day.  Set the hawks up on the beach to make sure they had a good day of weathering due to the past two rainy days that kept them inside.   It was warm, but mostly cloudy.   Cleaned up some enclosures, organized.   Saw the iguanas everywhere, on the bushes, at the seawall.  Some guests were dealing with iguanas attempting to take their food.  Anything colorful, from drinks, such as smoothies to fruit and shrimp are eaten by the iguanas.  They are very bold, so I brought over one of the hawks to see if it would deter the iguanas, nope.  They just stared at me.  So I herded the iguana away from the guests.   I told the guests, that the iguanas use their tail and slap at anything they find annoying or threatening, and the bob their heads and display their 'beard' (flap under the chin) when the feel you are encroaching on them.  Baby iguanas are common right now.  For the evening flights, hawks were set up again at the concourse by the parking garage.  Four were put up, they flew around well.   I have two hawks on similar frequencies of transmitters,  Too close.  So one transmitter was canceling out the other.  I had a time locating one due to this issue,  I have a new, used receiver that was properly calibrated.   I took the battery out of the interfering transmitter and tracked the wayward hawk behind the office building.  By then, it was past sunset and she had gone to roost.  But with persistence and training her to the illuminated tall (16ft) T post she was back safe in her box for the night.   Finished up well past 9:00 that evening.  I am putting the dominant transmitter on her and the recessive transmitter on the hawk that does not wander off.  Lesson learned.