Falcon in the Middle
on June 6, 2017
at 11:42 pm
I was grilling last weekend with large grill gloves and was informed by my friends that I looked less like a chef and more like a falconer.
Bug Martini
Random nonsense three days a week
The falcon flying away is one of the ways you can be a bad falconer. The other way is the reason Lancre’s royal falconer is known as Hodgesaargh.
Did you lose the redirect from bugcomic.com? It’s no longer secured, and redirects to some unrecognizeable site.
Works fine here. Also, that domain was last updated in 2012 and doesn’t expire until 2019, so I’d check for problems on your end. Unless you haven’t been visiting since May 5th, when there were some problems with Bug site access in general, in which case I don’t have a clue where to start.
So, Disney-style, four fingers. Was a four-fingered bug established canon already – or is today the first step on the road to allegiance to the Mickey Moguls?
I, for one, welcome our new rodant overlords.
(Not really, he gives me the creeps…)
To be serious for a moment — I once attended a presentation given by a falconer, and what I remember is that, in the United States falconer community, it’s not considered a bad thing, necessarily, to have a falcon not come back. A lot of falconers get injured or sick falcons, and then teach them to hunt, and they heal up, and then, eventually, if they decide to go off and not come back, it’s seen as a sign that the falcon is comfortable making it on its own, and it’s counted as a rehabilitation success.
The only problem with that is that the falcon is probably still wearing jesses, those leather thongs around the lower legs with which they can be restrained. Not good if they catch on branches and the bird can’t get loose. A hawk came into our wildlife rehab center for that reason, but was eventually released (without the jesses). I don’t know how common it is to fly a hawk without the jesses on.
Counted as a rehabilitation success as that sounds better in the newsletter than counted as a not checking for nearby power lines failure.
I dunno. That sounds like that should really be on the falcon.
Reading Bride’s Story as well, huh.
This one cracked me up for some reason
Grilling gloves…
I’ve grilled for years and never knew such things existed.
-Your friend, ‘Three-Finger’ Frankie.