Annie Hocker sent a query about self- appointed “spokesman” Chris Palmer on the orca tragedy: “…Palmer has a big pulpit in his role as head of the environmental film dept. at AU, as well as being on the board of several other school and film festival depts. across the US. I did note that a …
Author: Steve Bodio
Winter in Mongolia
Lauren is becoming a serious horsewoman as well as a Berkutchi, in the depths of a winter that can reach -50C at night. And she is getting the spectacular flights that ignorant American falconers deny eagles can do. An excerpt: “I’ve had confirmation from World Vision that it has reached -50 C where I have …
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Science: Mother crickets can apparently warn their offspring about potential predators BEFORE BIRTH. “Researchers from the University of South Carolina Upstate and Indiana State University placed pregnant crickets in an enclosure where they were stalked, but not eaten, by a wolf spider, whose fangs had been coated with wax to protect the crickets. “The young …
Dear Facebook
Regular readers please forgive– but all posts come up on Facebook under my name, which seems to be causing some confusion… I do not have a ranch or sheep herd in Wyoming, a grandchild in California, a wife named Connie, or for that matter a husband. Nor do I live in Louisiana and cook gumbo. …
The Girls
Pennsylvania artist and pigeon man Hans Windgassen saw a pic of Ataika and Lashyn and wanted to paint them. I sent him more photos and this is the result. I think it captures Taik’s arrogance and Lashyn’s often worried look. He calls it “Les Girls”
STILL another Mauser
Years ago, more flush and thinking that anyone who called himself “.275 Rigby” should have one, I gave Jonathan Hanson my Rigby 7 X 57 (on a Mauser 98 action). Jonathan has done well with it, and I have never regretted it, but I have never, as has been documented here, found a 7 X …
Irbis recovers
He THINKS he is 100% better and that he can go chase rabbits, but he still has 6 weeks on restricted, ie leash, movement. He is bored, and not afraid to let us know it.
Blogs and sites
A few blogs and sites new to me: Birds of Kazakhstan. The new Ithaca Gun Company– with 28 gauges! Coming soon: a watchdog site contra HSUS. Mouthful of Feathers: a tough literate bird- hunting blog. Trevor Herriot’s Grass Notes: a Canadian prairie blog.
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Rebecca has “the best job ever” in part because she works in the perfect office. Holly reviews Rebecca. Karen Myers has a splendid portfolio of their Uhlan, one of our tazi relatives, romping with their basset bleu de Gascogne in the Virginia snow. She also sent a link to this story on the subway- riding …
Resume blogging..
Been a long winter and everything– Irb’s accident, heavy snow and darkness (good for the land but not for the “SAD” mood): possible new project work; NO movement on other projects; even arthritis: all have contributed to a lack of things to say and desire to blog. But lengthening days, recovering dogs, conditioning hawks (Using …