Our friend Nance McManus, artist, horsewoman, and bird trainer (see here ) took this photo of us a couple of weeks ago at the Albuquerque conference of the International Association of Avian Trainers and Educators, where I was featured speaker (Central Asian eagling and such). Just to show I am hardly at death’s door!
Author: Steve Bodio
Pigeon Slander
Apparently there is to be a “reality” show about pigeon racing starring Mike Tyson. While he might not be the perfect spokesman I’d pick, the once- great Audubon Magazine sees this show as an opportunity to link the Horror of Tyson to the Horror of a sport of which the only characteristic is that some …
Some Links
Are Middle Eastern wolves the ancestors of domestic dogs? I would have to see a lot more, and wonder what Saivolainen, who suggests an eastern China origin, would say. More and more domestication sites seem to move east as we look there.And the most primitive dogs remaining (dingos, singing dogs) are SE Asian. They may …
Of Illness, Facebook, and a Dog: Announcements
First: readers have doubtless noticed a falling off in the number of posts this last six months, and in the number of adventures that leads to them. For all this time I have been having difficulty walking (which I initially put down to arthritis) and also sitting in the hard chair I had here. It …
The Answer to the Quote
Samuel Beckett, in “Molloy”. Which some of you Googled. Hey, that’s no fun!– wild guesses are a lot more entertaining than correct answers from any kind of “encyclopedia.”
Hunting Advice from an Unlikely Source
Tom McIntyre sent this quote. Who is it? Wild guesses encouraged, even necessary. I’ll give the answer later in the week. “…for sleep is a kind of protection, strange as it may seem. For sleep, if it excites the lust to capture, seems to appease the lust to kill, there and then and bloodily, any …
Mostly Links
Irbis has his check- up tomorrow and should be close to running free– we hope! Despite the fact we are in the tail- end of our season’s biggest snowstorm (a foot so far) spring is in the air, and in the pup- and I do mean SPRING. So more soon– but first a few links. …
Revolvers
Cat’s post below suggested a follow- up from here. Handguns are such a common tool in the west that one forgets that they seem alien in England or on the coasts. Here are two favorites. The “pretty” one is a stainless steel old- style (no trigger lock) Smith and Wesson Mountain Gun with custom walnut …
Animal progress
Irb is better all the time and thinks he is 100%, though he still has a month on house arrest before he can run loose. (WE are a bit battered but that will be another story– he nearly broke Libby’s ribs the other night). When he is running we will give any benefactor who requests …
“Sparrow Hawk”
A local pigeon fancier asked me to catch a “Sparrow Hawk” that was (I qoute) “living under my coop and killing sparrows”. While I’d think that a bonus– sparrows waste pigeon feed and spread disease– I loaded up my trusty butterfly net and caught this VERY fat male Sharpshin. (David Z– in any other part …