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The George Edward Lodge Trust are collating artwork images and photographs for a future book publication – George Lodge’s hawking diary. Read More


	Bob Dalton Article




		Bob Dalton with a Peregrine Falcon


	Bob Dalton runs Falcon Leisure. Bob has been a practising falconer for more than thirty years and has tried his hand at many different branches of the sport. Although it is the flight at red grouse with peregrines that has long been his consuming passion. As with most falconers his interest was born out of a love for wildlife in general and predators in particular.


	Read Bob’s article here

The Kiezebrink UK Falconry and Hawking Event 2011 at the International Centre for Birds of Prey, Newent, Gloucestershire. Saturday 3rd - Sunday 4th September 2011

The George Edward Lodge Trust found the Falconry & Hawking Event to be a very amiable, and rewarding two days. It gave the Trust an opportunity to educate the public in the artwork, life and skills of George Lodge. The GEL display of artwork and memorabilia was well received by the public - Lodge has many new admirers. Historically, the venue could not be better, and Mima, and all the organisers made us feel so welcomed. A BIG thank you, Brian Bird, GEL Chairman.




	G.E.L. Trust Stand at the Kiezebrink UK Falconry and Hawking Event 2011


	The late founder Trustee, Dick Treleaven, MBE talks about George Lodge


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	Video clip by courtesy of Mark Richards


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	GEORGE EDWARD LODGE TRUST - FIRST BOOK PUBLISHED


	The trust has published its first book: George Edward Lodge: An Artist’s Perspective on Falconry Please see our Merchandise Page


	CHRIS PACKHAM AT SURREY HEATH MUSEUM


	Chris Packham, the popular TV naturalist and Curator Sharon Cross holding a Greenland Gyr-falcon, one of the exhibits in the George Lodge exhibition.


	On Saturday 20th February, Surrey Heath Museum was delighted to welcome a special visitor, when popular wildlife broadcaster Chris Packham came in to see the current exhibition, which highlights the life of George Lodge, a remarkable artist who spent his last 34 years in Camberley.


	A wildlife artist of national repute, Lodge was most famous for his paintings of birds, particularly hawks and falcons. His work took him all over the world but his most notable achievement was the illustration of all 12 volumes of Bannerman's The Birds of the British Isles, a job he completed between the ages of 82 and 91.

The exhibition is a collaboration between the newly formed George Edward Lodge Trust, the Tryon Gallery in London and the Museum itself. Lodge's work is now much sought after and visitors have come from as far afield as Norfolk and the Midlands to see the show. Chris is an admirer of Lodge's paintings of hawks and was a keen falconer himself as a boy, so spent over an hour with the Museum, before going on to give a fascinating talk at Camberley Theatre.


	Our thanks to Debbie Hickman at Camberley Theatre for arranging the visit - and photographer Mike Hillman


	GEORGE LODGES’S GREAT NIECE JUDITH MAGILL WRITES TO THE TRUST


	After excitedly reading of the George Edward Lodge Trust in the English Country Life Magazine Judith Magill made contact with Brian Bird, Chairman of the Trust. To read the full letter follow the link here


	ALBINO WHITE-TAILED SEA EAGLE OIL PAINTING

On Friday 15^th June 2007, the George Edward Lodge Trust had helped to secure one of George Lodge’s largest oil paintings of a White-tailed sea eagle being mobbed by three hooded crows. The painting is dated 1915 and depicts the last known sea eagle in the British Isles, which lived and bred on the Shetland Isles. She was Albino and the locals had protected her for over 30 years. Eventually she was shot in 1918 and the sea eagle became extinct in Britain.


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