To continue the series on guns I have & like, humble & noble… I don’t have a military Mauser because I already have a first rate example built as sporting one. I don’t have a Springfield because with a gun of similar action and caliber (Mauser) it seems a bit redundant. I don’t have a …
Author: Steve Bodio
New Bird
After all the hints, he’s here– my “shotgun range” falcon! Yesterday we drove down to Bill Meeker’s breeding facility east of El Paso (and general animal friendly house– Ataika nearly went nuts trying to get to know –I hope only that!– their totally intact skunk through the bedroom door) to pick up a chamber raised …
One More Photo: Spider “Face”
Also by Daniela, of the orb web spider on her porch. That “face” on her abdomen is NOT photoshopped– I can only assume it is one of those “startle” features evolved to give a potential predator a moment’s pause.
Photo Blogging: Daniela’s Pack
Daniela went to California to pick up a pup, one of the grandsons of her old Lahav, from falconer – scientist Alberto Palleroni. Their dam is a distinguished young lady from the Gulf who I believe has actually caught coyotes all by herself! They were raised around his Gyrs who like many such fed them, …
Season’s Change: A little Photo Bogging
… to hold you. Apologies for light content; I have been very busy on everything from house repair to mushrooming to just exercising for my health (exhausting). I am also trying, no, plotting, to revive Q- the- Book, at least in NM… Meanwhile: Monday, my neurologist gave me a thumbs- up. Performance was up in …
John Vaillant’s The Tiger
Here it is, Q- Philes– John Vaillant’s The Tiger: a True Story of Vengeance and Survival is finally out this week. It is better than good– my favorite book of the year so far, and a likely classic in my rare favorite genre, that which documents (to use a book title) “the edge of the …
Cepe Success!
The ‘shrooms have arrived or, as Peculiar wrote, channeling Chaucer (“…had he lived in the Southern Rockies and been more interested in fungi than relics”): “Whan that August with his shoures sootethe droghte of June hath perced to the roote,and bathed every veyne in swich parfoumof which vertu engendred is the shroum…. “…thanne longen southwestryn …
Beginnings and Endings in Mongolia
Lauren is coming home next week, visiting us soon, and will doubtless be blogging for herself. In addition to training her eagle, she has done a lot of research,and to my envy got to meet the chronicler of the Gyrfalcon, Eugene Potapov, author of my favorite ornithological monograph (see link two posts down): ” I …
“Big Black Nemesis”; or, what is an Altai Falcon anyway?
A while ago, LabRat at Atomic Nerds started a series of posts on the evolution of sex among other things. The first was appropriately called “Shuffling Your Cards: Why Sex?” Since in science we are both mad nerds obsessed with evolutionarily odd strategies like parthenogenesis in local lizards (and the hybridization that may have started …
Photos
For the first time I MAY be able to put in my photos rather than have Matt or Reid do it, though there are still problems–it took three tries to get the image in (telling me it WAS there twice, but it wasn’t!), and it put the image at the top rather than the bottom …