00:00 25 years, 23 years I've done it now.
00:11 But I don't take it for granted, every day is enjoyable.
00:15 I mean, how could you not enjoy it?
00:17 You know, you go in, fly the birds early in the morning, sit down, watch a bit of tennis,
00:23 have a Pimm's or something like that.
00:42 So when we're at Wimbledon together, we generally start at 4.30 in the morning.
00:48 We enter where the grounds are very, very quiet.
00:52 It really is like going into a church.
00:53 It's very, very quiet and Rufus just can go and fly around and he's upon the roof and
01:01 then he'll go off for a little bath and then he'll come back.
01:04 So it's kind of his domain.
01:06 He just flies and he will make sure that nothing has gone under the roof during the night and
01:13 or early morning.
01:14 And he's just there to make sure that the pigeons know that there's a resident hawk.
01:20 Once they know that, they know that actually it's not a safe place to be.
01:24 So that's really what you want ingrained.
01:26 It's got a range of, it doesn't matter, you know, it can be 100 miles or whatever.
01:41 This is called a herd and we use it to manage the falcons.
01:47 This falcon's very calm so it doesn't really need one, but in the event of one getting
01:51 stressed, we can pop that on and it calms it down.
02:12 And now, as I said, we've worked at West, one of my favourite places to work.
02:15 I mean, I was there for the Queen's funeral and coronation and we actually, the falcons
02:23 we can fly outside, the hawks we can fly inside, you know, and I was there for the Queen's
02:29 Jubilee and the whole shebang.
02:31 So it's quite a little feather on my cap, so it's just an excuse to put on.
02:42 (slurping)
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