Source Titanis walleri, a genus of flightless bird from early Pliocene to early Pleistocene North America. They had an estimated length of about 2 m. by Jaime Chirinos I am going to have to control my weakness for posting these guys.
Month: September 2021
Gotcha!
I was convinced that Dave Petzal was wrong when he declared categorically that nothing favorable to hunting had ever come out of the New Yorker. I was cautious because, you know, DAVID IS NEVER WRONG. When I was writing Good Guns, I made a less than reverent remark about John Moses Browning. A note came …
The Song of the Lark
The Song of the Lark Jules_Breton I saw this the other day and it didn’t come to mind but, apparently, a very famous image. We don’t have the skylarks here but I have heard the song is wonderful. I would like to see it. https://youtu.be/-QsorI-fZsY?si=kS2XRuw5-nMn-1qR https://youtu.be/8eOIcWB7jSA?si=J8pEMsrlUwMufPIR Knew it was popular but not sure as much …
Parrot Training
Parrot Training I saw this and it was new to me. I thought of Steve with his falcons since there are similarities. Source This guy Or this guy. Not sure which now. I was reminded of this guy that takes his parrot to waterfalls here and posts online. They are often in deep woods …
On Target
Source “This bird of prey had caught a meal 30 minutes ago but was back for more. Through high speed maneuver, it was successful in breaking the group down to just one shorebird. With its target locked in, it was just a matter of time. Sandpiper being chased by a falcon, Brier Island, September …
Ebooks Are an Abomination
Ebooks Are an Abomination Some good comments but books and ebooks complement one another. The big downside of paper is the lack of images, etc. Most books are cheaply printed. I didn’t know that ebook usage had leveled off.
Johnny Barsness on Murder etc
He NAILS it; : “My observation was the deaths of those magazines were predictable. When F&S and OL (and to lesser extent Sports Afield) were the “Big Three” of the “outdoor” market, they all covered not just hunting AND fishing, but firearms, boating, camping, etc. Some were also stories of a day or week afield. …
‘Art’ 225,000 years old.
https://phys.org/news/2021-09-footprint-art-dates-mid-ice-age.html ‘Art’ 225,000 years old. An international collaboration has identified what may be the oldest work of art, a sequence of hand and footprints discovered on the Tibetan Plateau. The prints date back to the middle of the Pleistocene era, between 169,000 and 226,000 years ago – three to four times older than the …
WordPress Problems; New Masthead
I think that WordPress is THE hardest piece of software that I have ever “Handled.”Among its other faults it consistently puts stuff in the wrong place. Nevertheless, the Good Karen Meyer in her role as She Who Must Be Obeyed tells me I must use it for a little while yet, so I am trying …
Helen Macdonald, Euro Robins
https://www.theatlantic.com/books/archive/2021/09/lauren-groff-matrix/619998/ “I once saw [the writer] Helen Macdonald, who I think is a genius, ” I saw this reference to Helen and it prompted me to look her up to see what she was up to lately. I downloaded the Vesper Flights audio book which she reads. She has a good reading voice. Checking through …