New Mexico, Scotland, Pakistan– everywhere friends with dog relatives and near- relatives seem to be having wonderful seasons. Starting close to home, Daniela attended an informal meet where, as she put it: “…every hound in the field that day was descendant from Libby & Steve’s hounds, including these two 5 month puppies, Lily & Lola, …
Month: December 2010
Visitor
John Davila, one of my oldest and closest friends in New Mexico, is a former rodeo cowboy and a rancher with land- grant roots who lives where he was born, many long dirt- road miles south of the pavement in Catron County. These days he raises half- Japanese grass- fed cattle, another story, and manages …
A Merlin
Up in Colorado Anne Price (of the REF) and her female merlin Larkyn have also been busy. “… a week after almost losing her, my gal did the craziest thing I’ve ever seen her do in 3.25 seasons of flying her: she went and robbed/stole a starling from a wild female prairie falcon! It was …
One Owl
Nate and Nan are in their second season with their tame, fascinating, and often frustrating great horned owl. The bird does take game, and it makes for an expansion of “hawking” hours for two busy people (Nan’s store here) and great pictures, but as Nate said: “.. I had a horned owl kick my ass …
Some Photoblogging plus…
Not too much other than pix to share, though some books are in the pipeline. Several people have emailed about the peregrine. Everything goes well if slowly (my condition plus cold plus probably more caution than ever!) She is getting well- manned and has no vices. Got to get her on the lure now. Today …
More Hawking Photos
First a short series of photos taken by Brian Millsap during our last-week hunting trip to Amarillo, Texas. Eric Edwards’s merlin Jimmy Walker and goshawk Turkey at the night roost Taking a break from the wind at 25 degrees Another batch of great photos (more by Eric Edwards) are available in the linked Picasa albumn below. …