My mother's been clearing out an enormous cupboard in my sister's old bedroom. I say cupboard; it's bigger than my utility room and the entire family has been using it as a dumping ground since forever. This is what came to light today: some early photos of me with hawks ( Read more... )

So I was talking to deathwokclan, and I go to Youtube to show her the Spike tuggy video. And while I'm there, I'm distracted by a National Geographic video of an eagle hunting a chevrotain, and then it occurs to me that I could do a Youtube search for "falconry", and I wonder why I never thought of it before. I'm not usually so slow to find new ways to ( Read more... )

For bloolarkHow old are you? - Thirty-nine; I'll be forty in September ( Read more... )

Season one, episode five: opening scene is meant to be a bunch of Middle Eastern types being Middle Eastern round a campfire. There are tents, there's sand and there are hawks. The hawk that the camera lingers lovingly on in the opening shot is a bloody European Buzzard.seriously! this is the equivalent of filming a greyhound racing scene and ( Read more... )