Trapping Goshawks in Idaho. Even if an eagle gets into the net. That’s our friend Bruce Haak, biologist, writer, and falconer with the eagle. He traps and bands every fall on an 8000- foot ridge, where winter comes early.
Month: October 2006
Bleg
For a project– does anyone know where I can find a copy of the 1971 made- for- TV movie (the second Movie- of- the- Week ever!) “Harpy”, starring Hugh O’Brian, Elizabeth Ashley, and a big serious falconry- trained Harpy eagle? I believe the bird was trained by Jim Fowler, protege of Marlin Perkins. Lots of …
Getting Out..
… is most of what I have been up to. I have found a mysterious nest made mostly of lengths of various kinds of wire, with some sticks and cholla joints woven in… Some curious caterpillars… Can anyone identify it? Is it a Dysschema howardi? I saw some of those there recently… And the girls …
Quiet Please
A sign from the flight line at Santa Barbara Airport. The airport has been here since the 1920s, when it was surrounded by lemon groves and pasture. Now that those have been replaced by UC – Santa Barbara and suburbs, people complain about the noise. Like they didn’t know the airport was there when they …
An Unexpected Benefit
It’s supposed to be fun. Anything you do for yourself, as a hobby or pastime, is supposed to be fun. So why do we need this reminder? We shake our heads at angry Little League fathers and puzzle over Prima Donna chess players. Probably there’s a brooding and hostile Tiddlywinks champion out there, a big …
El Morro
One of our vacation stops was El Morro National Monument east of Zuni pueblo in west-central New Mexico. This striking mesa has been a landmark along a heavily used travel route for hundreds of years. Rainfall and snowmelt from the mesa top drains down this channel and waterfall into a large pool, also providing incentive …
Airport Adventure
Unlike a number of airports and military air bases here in Southern California, the Santa Barbara Airport doesn’t have a full-up airshow. Don’t know the reason for this, but our airport does have what they call Airport Adventure, consisting mostly of static display of aircraft and airport equipment. This year’s was held last Saturday, and …