#falconer

[ybon-paramoux]

Mongolian Landscape

#art #photography #mongolia #falconer #steven stalhberg

[luckyspacecadet]

TASTE THE RAINBOW 🌈

(Longbow LGB-7Q)

Still a W.I.P. along with Falconer in the back and Urbanmech not pictured. Hopefully this one will be leading my Alphastrike force.

I think the Pilot will be named "Skittles"

#battletech #mechwarrior #miniatures #tabletop miniatures #wargaming #mech #miniature painting #tabletopminiatures #miniature wargaming #longbow #lgb-7q #falconer #wip

[inkcross]

Team Sky

#shantae #shantae half genie hero #skyshantae #drawingaday #sketchaday #pencildrawing #sketch #doodle #shantaesky #falconer #wayforwardstudios

[stephantom]

If you could only listen to music from one country from now on, which country would you choose and why is it Sweden?

#abba #opeth #ghost #candlemass #tribulation #hallas #sabaton #bathory #falconer #amon amarth #zeal and ardor #dissection #grand magus #hammerfall #entombed #meshuggah #dodsrit #at the gates #in flames #enforcer #ambush #yngwie malmsteen #like. it’s crazy #some of these I’m just kinda familiar with but several are all-time favs #good job sweden #music #sure these are almost all metal bands but it’s notable that they also produced like the best pop band ever lol #and the metal bands cover very different subgenres and they’re standouts in each subgenre. like easily one of The Greats of each #also ace of base! and europe! maybe one-hit-wonders but what hits! #the final countdown a-tier song

[minifiguresadventures]

The falconer

#toyphotography #lego #toycommunity #brickcentral #toyartistry #legominifigures #lego photography #lego minifigures #custome minifiures #falconer

[acrosscenturiesandgenerations]

▪︎ Huntsman Presenting a Captured Heron to a Lady Falconer.

Date: ca. 1500–1530

Culture: South Netherlandish

Medium: Wool warp; wool and silk wefts.

#16th century #16th century art #art #textile #huntsman #Renaissance #lady falconer #falconer #south netherlandish #wool #ca. 1500 #ca. 1530 #tapestry

[fourbrickstall]

Mongolian falconer

#lego #lego photography #toy photography #brickcentral #mongolian #falconry #falconer

[predatorperspective]

ideal friend group 💝

#tracker #falconer #berserker #predators #bts #yautja

[eranstockdale]

#falconry #birds of prey #bird of prey #polls #falconer #hawk #falcon #vulture #owl #owls

[ybon-paramoux]

A Mongolian Falconer

#art #photography #falconer #mongolian #mongolia

[cuties-in-codices]

falconer swimming in a lake

in "de arte venandi cum avibus", italy, ca. 1258-1266

source: Vatican, Bibl. Apostolica Vaticana, Cod. Pal. Lat. 1071, fol. 69r

#medieval illuminations #medieval illustration #medieval manuscripts #medieval art #falconer #illuminated manuscript #swimming

[luckyspacecadet]

Small update on falconer - cockpit is done-ish

#battletech #mechwarrior #miniatures #tabletop miniatures #miniature painting #tabletopminiatures #falconer

[ebookporn]

You do what?

A Long Island native traded book publishing for birds and never looked back

Master Falconer at Sky Guardian Falconry

West Linn, Ore.

The job: 

-based abatement. "We use trained falcons, hawks and owls as security guards to protect areas where pest birds congregate," said Alina Blankenship, 52. She leverages the predator-prey relationship that is hardwired into birds to avoid their predators, to deter gulls, starlings, Canada geese, pigeons, sparrows and other fowl. Unlike scarecrows or loud noises, "the birds will never acclimate to that." Her clients include airfields, stadiums, wharves, cities, golf courses and dams where opportunistic birds catch fish. In Oregon, she works with many agriculture companies, such as vineyards, which often sit in the migration paths of starlings that gather in groups of tens of thousands and can decimate a crop in minutes. "It's like a mob rush at a grocery store," Blankenship said.

Lifestyle: The schedule is dawn until dusk for agriculture jobs, on contracts of one to 16 weeks. Some falconers live on-site in a trailer, but that's not for Blankenship. "I go home," she said. Her jobs can shift with the crops, from cherries to blueberries to apples to grapes. She also cares for a dozen working birds (nine falcons, three hawks), plus four owls and a raven for education programs, with the help of a feeder.

Pay: Farmers pay $600 to $1,000 a day while urban or dam contracts can pay $750 to $1,200 a day. Jobs are often several days or weeks in a row - there's no weekends off in falconry. Sky Guardian Falconry is her company, so there's no middleman.

Backstory: Blankenship, who's originally from Long Island, was working in book publishing. One day she helped a friend remove an entrapped Cooper's hawk from a garage and was inspired to begin working with the birds when the hawk briefly perched on her arm. She apprenticed with a falconry master for two years while also volunteering for five years at a wildlife rehabilitation facility. "I did her education programs, taking her great horned owl to kindergartens," Blankenship said. Eventually, she became a licensed wildlife educator. "When people are eight inches away from these giant yellow eyes, it's transformative for them." A few years later, she discovered abatement - which the government began licensing only 15 years ago - and which she thought would improve her falconry. "In a year I'll have birds in the air more than some falconers will in their entire careers."

How it works: The goal is to teach pest birds that the neighborhood is just terrible. If 10,000 birds fly over a crop, Blankenship will send her saker falcon up into the air. "She's a winged border collie, and she escorts them off the property," she said. Some of the birds might scatter onto the ground, and to move them, she'll send out her aplomado falcon, the equivalent of a chihuahua. "She'll fly out of my car window and down that row, scare away all the birds that were hiding there, and fly back into my cupholder." The strategy shifts depending on factors like the weather, season and type of pest bird: For example, blueberry crops attract nesting birds like robins and finches. The falcons never kill - they just reroute unwanted birds - because Blankenship provides just enough food to keep their energy high but catch-and-kill motivation low.

Worst day at work: "When everybody doesn't get home," she says. Falcons can be injured by barbed wire or power lines, get attacked or be hit by automobiles.

#book publishing #falconry #falconer #career change #dream job

[tim-dennis]

Hooded Peregrine

#peregrine #hooded #falcon #falconer #falconry #warkworth #Northumberland #tim dennis #canon #photography #lensblr #tim dennis.tumblr #70d #canon 70d #original photographers #pws #bird #bird of prey

[rise-of-the-nerdist]

#star wars #millennium falcon #meme #memes #funny #falconer #vibes #good vibes #aes #aesthetic #aesthetics

[heaveninawildflower]

May (1455) taken from the Book of Hours of Simon de Varie by Master of Jean Rolin II (fl. from 1440 until 1465), Dunois Master (fl. from 1435 until 1466). The first miniature shows a falconer and the second, Gemini.

Koninklijke Bibliotheek. Wikimedia.

#May #book of hours #falconer #Gemini #medieval book