Two neat sites! Falconry and Typesetting

[furtech]

Two totally unrelated things I thought I'd share:

I found this neat site on falconry while googling something totally unrelated. It's a falconry/hawking blog. Fantastic photos of birds of prey! I love his Harris' hawks!
[EDIT: FYI, the link goes to a particularly falconry-heavy month of blogging...most of the recent blogs are reporting about the anti-evolutionary movement (they're against it) The second link is a nice site about falconry, with a good gallery]

The Austringer

Falconry


I forget who linked to this, but I find it fascinating and hilarious, in a typesetting-geek kind of way. What -does- the handwriting of people who design type fonts look like?

Font designers' handwriting

Comments

[okojosan.livejournal.com]

Neat falconry sites! I bookmarked those. I have a book on falconry (in case I ever want to write about it) but I think if I were ever going to devote massive amounts of time to an animal it would probably be a horse instead of a bird of prey. Or, I need someone to hire me to live on their estate and do falconry from horseback. Voila!

[furtech.livejournal.com]

Before I went to college I was apprenticed to a Master Falconer for two years. I never did get my "starter" bird (apprentices are limited to a kestrel or a redtail), but it was neat working with him (he bred peregrines). I even had an allergy serum made from hawk feathers to take care of my allergies.

The best thing about apprenticing is that you find out where the annual California Falconry Club has its annual meet! Always held on the first day of dove hunting season!