Is Hawksdrift Falconry Still in Business? (2026 Update)
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Look for Hawksdrift Falconry on AmazonFull story →Layla Bennett pitched a falconry outfit covering three things at once, pest control, live event displays, and bird-themed gifts, in series 8.
The company is still open, though the business you would find today looks fairly different from the one that pitched.
A Three-Part Pitch
Bennett was after £50,000 for a quarter of the company, spread across pest control work, live shows and a novelty gift service built around her birds of prey.
Duncan Bannatyne took the deal exactly as offered. His time running leisure and services businesses gave him a decent read on a company built around bookings and appearances rather than something you manufacture.
What's Left Is the Pest Control Side
Hawksdrift Limited is trading today, but the event displays and gift service that anchored the original pitch have mostly fallen away. What kept going is the pest control arm, sending handlers and birds out to move pigeons and gulls off commercial roofs and yards.
That side runs on contracts renewed year after year with property managers, rather than a diary full of individual weddings, which makes it far less dependent on the weather and easier to scale.
Not a Failure, Just a Different Business
Trading a consumer-facing calendar of bookings for steady commercial contracts is a common move for small specialist services, and here the birds and the skills stayed constant while the paying customer changed.
Anyone turning up expecting the falconry displays from the original episode will find something else, but the underlying craft of working professionally with birds of prey simply landed on a sturdier business model.