Yesterday afternoon I took Cash for a walk in the Hidden Mesa Open Space area located about 15 minutes southwest of us. We had a good time, or at least I did as I found five prehistoric sites as we were walking along the trail. Cash spent a lot of time giving me “Can we …
Month: August 2013
Doggage
More relatives; Daniela’s boys in part, Shunkar, showing the permanent damage the rattler did; thank God he did not lose an eye. Then, Monnie’s new pups, from John B and Vladimir; sweet Kyra, Tigger’s daughter, with her GSD protector Eden, and (the little red) feisty Aeris, Taika’s neice and already a tiny tyrant who knows …
I’m Baaaack!
Returning to what passes as normal, granting that I am still working on a book thing, moving pigeons around, preparing for trustees meeting for the Sevilleta, taking up the falcon, writiing a new Neuroblog post, and more of the usual clutter. But at least a little blogging will resume. First, a few images from last …
Range Sheep & Big Predators
I am weary of the snide, ignorant, and vicious comments made in response to last week’s death of 176 sheep due to a wolf attack in eastern Idaho (see stories here and here). Some of the sheep were directly bitten and killed, but the majority of the animals were killed in a stampeding pileup as …
More Blackfoot Cave
Weekend before last I spent both days excavating at Blackfoot Cave that I posted about last month. The find of the weekend was this section of what appears to be a bison mandible. If you look closely you can see the top surfaces of the teeth pointed down toward the photo scale. It hasn’t been officially …
Quote
“I hate vacations.”– travel writer and novelist Paul Theroux in a recent interview. We are off for a week to see Deep Springs– more a mini- adventure than a “vacation”– besides, I will be working on my proposals. Internet access is at best intermittent there– it is far more remote than Magdalena — so do …
Southwest Sunsets, Monsoon Version
In response to Reid’s below. These (taken from my front door) are out of Blood Meridian.
Bird Changes
For a while there we had around 20 hummingbirds a day coming to our feeders. Tweaking the formula for nectar appears to have have a real effect. It seems though that the rufous and calliope hummingbirds have left for Mexico and we just have a few broad-tailed hanging around. I have been finding that it …
Red Rubber Ball
Late last week we had a lot of smoke haze here that the USWS said was coming from fires in Utah and Idaho. It certainly made my eyes sting, but we did get a bonus with one of these apochalyptic-looking sunsets.
More images; Tazis east of Turkey
If (as I think) “Tazi” and “Saluki” are linguistic rather than biological distinctions, reflected where Arabic turns to the Turkic and Persian tongues, the title is redundant. The pics are not, and even clinal change admits some differences. Iranian tazi, stolen weeks ago, returned to its horse archer partner this week, a friend of a …