Sunday May 27, 2012

Hawk eyes

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Satoko Sakakibara gets ready to release a Harris’s Hawk during the annual new year falconry demonstration by Suwa Falconry Preservation Society at Hamarikyu Gardens in Tokyo on Tuesday. 

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  • -8

    some14some

    "Satoko Sakakibara gets ready to release a Harris’s Hawk..." she looks like sleeping in standing position.

  • -3

    LH10

    "she looks like sleeping in standing position." lol! cool~but long ago, i was randomly attacked by one of those freaken birds. lol

  • 0

    Serrano

    Cool!

  • 0

    pamelot

    A nice photo...

    The palette of color is appealing...

    A great capture of a woman who appears to have a quiet, focused demeanor, conducive for a relaxed relationship with the falcon...

  • 1

    darbysan

    like the bird not too shure about the walking skeleton in the background

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    whiskeysour

    Falcon's are cool !!!!!

  • 0

    GW

    I enjoy all the hawks, kites etc that come from the Russian Far East each winter near the Tone-gawa & watching the chogenbo do their thing catching grasshoppers etc along the rice fields each winter, very cool!

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    Weasel

    I've got a natural respect for creatures with talons.

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    anglootaku

    How does one become a falconry these days? especially in Japan

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    anglootaku

    Falconry in a trip to Dubai I saw looks quite nice, there is also manga about a falconry in Dubai

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    anglootaku

    Interview with the writer of the falconry manga titled 'Gold Ring' http://sailemagazine.com/?p=260

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    The Munya Times

    Powerful, a bird of less one kg of body weight and easily kills a 2 or 3 kg rabbit in two seconds. Wingspan app. 1 meter. Hunts in teamwork.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ai3eVjr0Pzg

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    MaboDofuIsSpicy

    Harry potter looks cool with the bird.

    Note: Down on the Shonan coast South of Tokyo here, they have signs posted about the Tonbi steeling your food. In English they write those birds down as Hawks. They are wrong. They are Kites. Shape of the tail is different. One is convex and the other concave.

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    oberst

    GREAT pic !!

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    Stephen Jez

    cool outfit

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