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 …
Author: Steve Bodio
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 …
Excellent Quote
From Michael Gruber’s blog: “Nothing pleases Apollo better than the slaughtering of a frivolous irresponsible reviewer on his altar.” – Georg Christof Lichtenberg (1742-1799)
Exciting Bird!
Today John Wilson and I took off at dawn and drove up past 10,000 feet on South Baldy in the Magdalena Range, surveying a rather unlikely habitat for the annual “Backyard” Bird Count. I doubted that we would see much more than ravens and a few boreal forest- type hardy songbirds of the general type …
Preview and Tease
Reviews on deck of many books– Dan Baum on guns (see Saturday the 16th’s’s WSJ review section), David Quammen on scary viruses; and most fun of all, Katrina van Grouw’s The Unfeathered Bird…