I like wabbits

Took the bird out for flight today, gave very little in the way of titbits on the glove, he was a little heavier than I normally fly him. He was keen to stay on the glove but did some long flights, however we may have a breakthrough looming. I have been trying to get him to stop screaming and hunt. I'm no expert at this falconry stuff but that's been a bit of a frustration recently. He's not really interested in chasing anything. Until today...creeping along the warrens a rabbit bolted along the mound in the hedgerow and down into a burrow. Chico made himself as tall as could be, stop screaming and watched intently for more movement.
He then flew into the tree that was above the Warren and watched and waited while I put on a great show of hunting round the Warren.  Now I know there was no chance of the rabbit coming back out, but this is how Harris hawks hunt in the wild, cooperatively with other hawks, and one will often go to a high perch and another will go on the ground and flush the prey.
So I did it really to egg him on a bit.
He seemed to get the idea but with nothing flushed gave up but everyone we went near a hole or a bank he was having a in depth look. And was much quieter.
We stopped for a fag break, he got the hump and sat in the grass. Then decided to go for wash in the only puddle in the field and pretty much finished us there and then.
I also noticed a leaky eye on his left side which I need to monitor in case it needs a visit to the vets.