This is one of the hardest ones to follow. The anxiety involved with acheiving each step draws time out until two days feels like forever. And falconers old and new will boast that they had this hawk hunting within X number of weeks or days or minutes of trapping.

Within reason, it's safer for the apprentice to ignore it when someone says, "You ought to have done X by now." A hawk's progress varies on the amount of time spent training, the apprentice's ability to sense what next step the hawk is ready for, and the hawk's individual personality. But again, within reason. For example, an apprentice who is not free-flying within three or four months, barring injuries to the hawk, needs to seriously evaluate their reasons for this.

Hunting with other falconers almost always causes some anxiety. Falconers are by nature observant and unfortunately often highly judgemental. They also have a fondness for gossip and telling other people what to do. The apprentice needs to separate the pearls from the mud.

You want your bird to perform and it's terrifyingly easy to get angry at her when she doesn't. And if the bird senses that anger, it only makes matters worse. Do your best to keep that zen to accept that whatever the bird does is good and right.