Nate and Nan are in their second season with their tame, fascinating, and often frustrating great horned owl. The bird does take game, and it makes for an expansion of “hawking” hours for two busy people (Nan’s store here) and great pictures, but as Nate said: “.. I had a horned owl kick my ass …
Author: Steve Bodio
Some Photoblogging plus…
Not too much other than pix to share, though some books are in the pipeline. Several people have emailed about the peregrine. Everything goes well if slowly (my condition plus cold plus probably more caution than ever!) She is getting well- manned and has no vices. Got to get her on the lure now. Today …
More Dog Morons
Sari from our Asia Group sent me a link to this (nearly) unbelievable story about New Guinea singing dogs. It begins: “The New Guinea Singing Dogs are the rarest in the world. Just 150 were known to exist before the bust at Randy Hammond’s home. Now there are 235.” So they “rescued” and neutered them. …
Gun Deal
“Nowadays the shooter who has passed his physical zenith has a doubleinducement for handing in his 30″ barrelled, full- weight, old thoroughbred, and going in for something lighter and faster- handling but in no significant degree inferior, ballistically. These old thoroughbreds are now fetching high prices– much more, in many cases, than they cost… True, …
Visitors
Tom Russell would be too modest to say so but he might just be the best and most lasting singer- songwriter of my generation; while some annoyingly typecast him as a western or cowboy or border balladeer he is in all ways an American bard, a living link between cowboys and the beats and all …
Almost a review
Libby recently read Jeff Lockwood’s Locust. Her letter to him is as good as a short review, and the last line could be a blurb: “I thoroughly enjoyed Locust. My favorite period of US history is the opening of the west during the 1800’s. When I was a kid we took many family trips to …
News (none) and some pix…
No real news good or bad– just BUSY, exercising– sometimes hours a day– to keep PD at bay, gathering wood, getting ready for hunting, lots of guests, cooking, bird training… Still, the past month saw a serious shotgun trade, a new bird, interesting visitors and meals, some reviewable books, and more. I’ll try to blog …
Some Desert Fieldwork
I spent about three weeks last month doing some fieldwork for a solar power project in Riverside County, California. The project is located near a large playa lake west of the town of Blythe. Specifically we were trying to determine whether seven of the prehistoric sites that we’d recorded during earlier phases of the project …
One More Autumn Nostalgia Photo
From Tim Gallagher in Ithaca: Native leaves, semi- exotic pheasant, exotic (French Manufrance Robust) gun…
Two Skulls
Suburban Bushwhacker posted some photos of a skull that he wanted his readers to guess at. It was a European badger. I know because long ago, after were were unable to stop in what the English call a “roundabout”* to retrieve a carcass, zoologist- artist Jonathan Kingdon gave me a skull of one with the …