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]

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!