Writing goes well, if slowly. I’m walking badly, sleeping worse, and not typing. I need some light guns- maybe one of those pseudo- Italian Turkish autoloaders in .410 — I don’t do heavy any more. On the other hand, I’m flying a goofy Harris hawk and have acquired several new, old guns. Libby needs new …
Author: Steve Bodio
The death of dogs
On a Good Dog O, my little pup ten years ago was arrogant and spry, Her backbone was a bended bow for arrows in her eye. Her step was proud, her bark was loud, her nose was in the sky, But she was ten years younger then, And so, by God, was I. Small birds …
BOOK SUGGESTIONS
Recently Tom McIntyre asked several of his friends to recommend books for a young woman who had not encountered them in college. My list follows. I once said that in my school the curriculum would be Classics, poetry, history, evolutionary biology, and how to run a chainsaw… Politics and philosophy. Sorta….. John Gray: Straw Dogs, …
Disclaimer
Some posts have been appearing here that are not mine. They are nothing offensive; in fact, one of them may have been an old post of mine from years ago, but they are NOT MINE. Until I get to the bottom of this, treat everything skeptically.
Found Object
While leading a birding trip in Patagonia, John Carlson of Prairie Ice photographed this sign.
New Bird
Beebe, our new 3 year old Harris, at brunch, by Rolf Magener.
Captain Rick Rozen
I just heard that my old (3rd oldest I think) friend Rick Rozen had died, of cancer and bouts of flesh-eating bacteria. Best I can tell he was 70 or 71. I first met Rick when I was 13 and he was 15, freshmen at a Catholic prep school. He had already attained his full …
Some Birds Past
I got a 7/8 Gyrfalcon, 1/8 Saker male falcon from a commercial breeder in Wyoming. He became He became, as most birds raised this way do, a quiet social imprint who loved dogs, and flying on the Henderson ranch. He was doing fine when a rich young ornithologist of my acquaintance insisted on “starting” him …
Once and Future Hawk
I had a couple of these. One of them was afraid of hats. In New Mexico. I fed her off one all summer and she still leaped off the perch every time she saw it. I’m getting one of these. He caught 70 small birds last month (legal, House sparrows). …And one of these I …
Another View of Marccus
This tribute to my late brother Mark was written by my younger sister Anita, who runs an autoimmune disease clinic with a doctor partner (who is also a snake fanatic — but that’s a matter for another time.) While it is frankly sentimental, it is a worthy addition to my bitter portrait — I was …