Mostly a falconry journal, occasionally thoughts on other things...
Monday, September 24, 2007
Cool pic! クーパの写真
A falconer from Texas posted this picture of a friend's female Cooper's Hawk (Turbo Dog) chasing a grackle on another site and I just thought it was a cool picture so I'm posting it here. Someday I'll get to fly a Coopers...someday.
"The reward that comes from practicing falconry is, and has to be, a feeling of your own personal satisfaction; that, and that alone. Chances are no one else will be around when your hawk is at her best. Falconry is a tedious, time consuming effort with long periods of stress and anxiety punctuated by heartbeats of gut-wrenching visceral satisfaction so intense that is impossible to put into words."
--The California Hawking Club Apprenticeship Manual
3 comments:
Great shot! Got several folks at work excited. One pointed out that it's likely that's a grackle and not a crow.
You're probably right about the grackle! I'll fix that...
Nice work!
Post a Comment