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Month: December 2010
Old Plummer
Our thirteen- year- old English lurcher from David Hancock, once one of the best single- hand hare hounds in the southwest, father and grandfather of other great dogs, mostly content to dream on the couch. Unless he sees a hare…
Commonplace Book: I don’t want to kill a tiger but…
From a letter Peter Fleming, Ian’s older brother and the better writer (News From Tartary— all the other editions are insanely expensive and this gives you two good books in one volume), wrote to his four- year- old son in England while he was working in intelligence in Burma in WW II: “If you are …
Training
I like my dogs & hawks to– literally– be able to share a lure or kill. For just one thing it makes the birds eagle- proof in the western field; for another it just makes everything easier. Ataika is a good teacher.
Golden view
Can’t think of much I’d rather look at than a golden eagle – doesn’t have to be in flight either! The images of the golden eagle in flight were taken here on our place in western Wyoming this morning, and the eagle feasting with its magpie neighbor was taken on Friday a few miles from the …
Around the ‘hood
Seems like I have encounters with various wildlife every day while we are on our winter range near the house. One of the pastures we use is in a riverbottom full of Cottonwoods, so I recently witnessed my Central Asian Ovcharka tree a raccoon right in the middle of the bedded sheep herd. He and …
I’m OK!
I am getting some vague hints that people are everything from worried to flat- out saying I am in bad shape– not from any who have actually been here like Paul or Rebecca, but by those who hear rumors from those that speculate or ??? I am here to say: such rumors are EMPHATICALLY not …
From the Commonplace Book
“…one must never be deterred from doing what one wants for lack of money don’t you agree?” (Nancy Mitford to Robert Byron) On the late President Turkmenbashi of Turkmenistan:“Stories trickling out of the country described a tyrant with the flair of Liberace and the savagery of Stalin”. (Eric Enno Tamm, The Horse that Leaps Though …
Pakistan
Ali Hasnain hunts in a slightly grander and very traditional way– on a friend’s estate, with beaters! (His rookie of the year, Sonya, is listening alertly for them in the pic). This hunt took place in a watery oasis in desert country. We hope to get more reports from him including on falconry if he …
Scotland
Mark McBride may take the largest and most varied bag of any of us as he does pest control and other hunting on neighbors’ Scottish estates. This day saw the initiation of Taik’s niece Nura to ferreting for rabbits. She caught on quickly– no surprise. Nura (the name of the eagle & tazi town in …