ParaHawking

[Iwillnevergiveup]

These men release their hawks and "fly" with them in the cliffs just north of San Diego at the Torrey Pines Golf Course.

https://www.youtube.com/v/pd5BMP_41bI%26rel=0%26hl=en_US%26feature=player_embedded%26version=3

[Plucketeer]

1. And I don't even HAVE a bucket list!

Thanks for posting this!

[another_liberal]

2. That is some beautiful photography . . .

And some even more beautiful animals.

Thanks.

[truth2power]

3. thanks so much for this...

One question...It's a wonder those hawks don't get their wings tangled in the hang glider lines. Why not?

[Old Crow]

4. They do.

Blood... feathers... spinning bird carcasses crashing into the surf below. They cut that footage out. It was kind of a bummer and didn't go with the uplifting string music.

I kid, I kid!

[Iwillnevergiveup]

6. Jeebus, Old Crow

you wanna give an old lady a heart attack?

[Old Crow]

7. My apologies

I have a mischievous streak that I should probably work harder to suppress, especially being new around here. Wagging finger noted.

[Mister Ed]

5. I once did that accidentally.

Back in my skydiving days, there was once a time when I was under canopy after a sunset jump, and pulled up right next to a hawk that was soaring high above the cornfields. We glided along close together in silence for about ten seconds, with the hawk's golden, dime-sized eye fixed on me. Then it veered off. But what a feeling it was, even if ever so briefly, to soar above the earth with a hawk in the golden rays of sunset!