… soo– to my absolute shock, I find myself, after many years’ absence from the refuge, appointed vice-president of Amigos de Sevilleta, a non-profit organization that exists to inform the public about the refuge and its mission, and arrange for events like birding and plant tours for the public. We want to make this utterly …
Month: March 2013
Creatures of the Sevilleta
Sevilletta has plenty of big animals, even “Charismatic Megafauna”. Peregrines nest in the cliffs, and herds of exotic oryx, expanding from White Sands despite increased hunting pressure intended to confine them there, drift through as though it was Africa, keeping a distance that, in summer’s liquid haze, makes you reach for your binoculars. Karen was …
Sevilleta! (Part one: Bee Wrangler)
Here begins a new series about the Sevilleta NWR, located a few miles north of Socorro and encompassing both sides of the Rio Grande, stretching from river bosque to high mesas, cliffs, and canyons on both “sides”. It is unusual (among other reason)s because, unlike most National Wildlife Refuges, it is not generally open to …
Granddog in action
Dan and Margaret’s H1lda (not a misprint):
Refrigerator art
Do you put things, other than kid’s photos, on your refrigerator? We have, and over the years I find they actually portray our life in cartoons and found objects. The book and car ones are almost painfully on- target. A selection below; as always, right or double click to enlarge and read…
Spring Puppies?
Larissa and Tavi are dancing for joy and have made (at least one) tie. But as they say, wait, there’s more! If Lane has indeed bred her fine taigans, Rustam and Ooly, we are about to have the first of this more exotic variation too. Can’t wait– I am sure they will be the first …
Jack at work
My stepson Andrew Jackson Frishman of Crest, Cliff and Canyon, at work as well as play on the lip of the Grand– photo by Greg Russell. Make sure you read their posts on a place under threat of a kind of development that would be ridiculous were it not real. Not all “Natives” are benign …
Oldest Falconry Film?
I have the Craighead film of their months with an Indian prince just before WWII, which is not unlike having films of Emperor Frederic in Medieval Sicily, or of being able to step into the print of Vadim Gorbatov’s “Kublai Khan’s Hawking Party” hanging to my right. But this short film, made before the first …
A Few Birds
Coming back this weekend after work, sick days, and generally too much, and that dull. (Why is it so hard to pay writers dammit???) We will have links, pix, dog news, poetry. I will finally review David Quammen. I will announce others. There will be…. MORE. Tonight though, good photos… as always, right or double …