This has to be liveblogged

[legionseaglelj.livejournal.com]

I am literally watching a woman at this very moment hawking (large handsome hawk with dark chestnut back and wings and a broad white band across the top of its spade-shaped tail and sparrow-hawk pattern of "fingers" on rounded wing ends, not sharp like a peregrine or kestrel and perhaps a white bar on the end of the tail) across the square at Old Trafford Cricket Ground. It's amazing (and completely serendipitious - I'm here for the Venturefest event.)

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[coughingbear]

Oh how glorious!

[fengirl88.livejournal.com]

Wonderful!

[hooloovoo_42]

Lucky you. Sounds great.

[jackmerlin.livejournal.com]

Sounds like a harris hawk. Which i suspect Nicola would like and Patrick wouldn't!

[legionseaglelj.livejournal.com]

I've just looked them up on the internet, and it looked very like that, yes.

[nineveh-uk.livejournal.com]

We had one on my office site scaring pigeons from the building site for a while, so perhaps it was doing something similar.

[legionseaglelj.livejournal.com]

There was both a building site and a lot of alarmed pigeons present on site, certainly.

[catwithcreamy.livejournal.com]

I saw the (anti-pigeon) Harris hawk and its handler on the upper gallery at Kings Cross about a year ago, a magnificent bird, and so very Nick.