If anyone could understand why I missed his memorial yesterday, it would be Dutch Salmon. He led me into many places, most of them good, but he also was a pioneer in dealing as gracefully as anyone can with Parkinson’s disease and its sometimes impossible symptoms and restrictions. I first encountered Dutch Salmon in an …
Author: Steve Bodio
Charlin
I achieved an unusual coup the other day; I paid off my gun dealer’s bill with an expensive gun, and got a better one for less money. It is a Charlin, not a Darne. While they look superficially alike, the Charlin’s breech rolls on ball bearings and can be moved by two arthritic fingers, while …
Stephen Collector
Boulder Photographer Stephen Collector, the Boulder photographer, visited this week to hunt quail and take pictures. The quail hunt, in East Red Canyon, was unsuccessful. I was glad to go out even with the .410. The photographs were more successful. Best of me in a long time Most realistic Tiger Country – Polvadera Mountain
Dangerous Birds
A lot of people seem to forget that, though Deinonychus and even New Zealand’s Moa and Maori- eating Haast’s eagle are gone, we still have some dangerous modern dinosaurs. This thought was prompted by an e-mail discussion among well- informed friends last week. My money for real danger is on Stephanoaetus coronatus, which always seems …
Eagle Women
–Two of the better known eagle falconers are coming to visit Casa Q next month. Lauren McGough, newly minted PHD anthropologist, is a long time protegee who first came here and on to Mongolia when she was sixteen. Novelist Rebecca O’Connor, who hails from California is also a longtime honorary Magdalenean. I’m trying to get …
Mark Henry Bodio 1952 – 2019
My difficult brother, Mark, died in the St. Croix, in the islands that he loved last week. He died alone of lung cancer, emphysema, and general organ failure, and I expect in excruciating pain after refusing any palliative treatment or a move off the island which would have given him more time. He systematically cut …
Tom Kelly
1926 – 2019 We buried Tom Kelly today, 100 yards from the house he was born in and lived jn for 93 years, It is a good spot overlooking the well-watered canyon bottom, with a view of the peregrine nest which has been there since time before mind (Vadim Gorbatov painted it once.) Frank Hibben, …
Gyrs
Pictures of what Frank Beebe considered the perfect falcon, first year male Gyrfalcons, by Chuck Susie.
Tom Cade
Tom Cade was a friend of mine, but we had not seen him since we watched sage grouse dancing on their leks on a Nature Conservancy property in Idaho over ten years ago. From the New York Times: Tom J. Cade, an ornithologist who was a leader of a remarkable effort that re-established the majestic …
Resucido
Resurrected — not too strong a word. Tiger Country is a logical extension of Querencia because my querencia is the country the old man called Tiger Country. And as Querencia symbolized the first part of my time here, so Tiger Country symbolizes the second. I hope you enjoy. The subject matter should be as eclectic …