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

[nesting.livejournal.com]

What a cool blog! one of my best buddies up here is a falconer. He has one of the only peruvian harris hawks in the country. His name is Agave!

[furtech.livejournal.com]

I love Harris hawks! They're almost like dogs-- the "wolves" of the sky. Watching them do cooperative hunting is just amazing.

Are there any visible differences between Peruvian Harris hawks and the ones typically found in the SW US?

[nesting.livejournal.com]

I honestly don't know the birds well enough to be able to tell the difference.
Here's a video of Agave I just remembered - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iIxbZdEmnCE

[furtech.livejournal.com]

Wow-- I'm stunned! The Peruvian Harris' hawk looks -very- different from their SW-US cousins! The Harris' here and in Mexico are very dark-- a nearly solid chocolate-colored back with bright rust shoulders. The Peruvian version looks more like a Coopers hawk with a lot of barring and a lighter brown. Thanks!