Cat Urbigkit has just returned from Mongolia. I hope she will be writing here in detail soon, but meanwhile here are a few teasers. Here is the parade at the Eagle festival: in front, my old friend and drinking companion Aralbai, a major character in Eagle Dreams: His son Armanbek, who was about twelve when …
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Rio
Rio was kindly lent me by Brian Millsap after my losing Shunkar aka Birdbrain. He is a three year old passage Harris’s hawk from Texas, and an experienced rabbit hunter. I am still figuring him out. After my many years of emotional falcons and Accipiters he seems a solemn, stolid little owl. Speaking of Birdbrain– …
Harvest Time
From a couple of weeks ago, before the frost: Libby with Maximilian daisies in the garden in front of the homer loft With a fat female mantis, ready to lay eggs that will winter over. Our New Mexico Home Gym (crossed- out New Hampshire at the Nerds’ is a reference to Marko’s New England version) …
Links
Stingray and LabRat at Atomic Nerds have been putting me to shame, blogging up a storm. Go to Stingray for blistering commentary on political and other idiocies, while LabRat has been writing on science at a level that good magazines should be paying generous amounts for (like that’s going to happen these days.) She also …
Return
As Pluvi says, “Sorry I’ve been away so long. No particular reason. Back I am.” I needed time away, badly, and now feel a bit refreshed. I have been in book- writing limbo for months, or years, or at least a year and a half. I hope to write something about that here. Also book …
Sake of The Children, part deux
A local writer (New Orleans’ Times Picayune columnist Robert Marshall) suspects that hunters ourselves—not primarily outside forces—are to blame for the free fall in recruitment of young people into our community. His premise rings uncomfortably true: “A succession of reports has provided hunters with convenient culprits for our demise, things such as ‘lack of access’ …
A Few Thoughts on Politics
What is it with people this year? I never could get that passionate about electoral politics. Or dream of distorting facts to bolster my candidate. Have you seen Naomi Wolfe on how “Evita” Palan is the stalking horse for the new fascism, how this will be the last election of our lifetime, and how she …
But first, a few links…
… to amuse or appall… Amuse and amaze: Annie D and a few others sent this incredible video of dolphins blowing and playing with “smoke rings” of bubbles. There are quite a few more out there on YouTube including one of belugas in Japan. A bit of serious geekery from XKCD. “Do not put…” A …
News
Sorry for light posting. Still haven’t found the bird. Realistically I am not sure what to expect. Of the longwings I have flown in the last 15 years or so, all but one were out at least overnight, and all but one of those eventually returned. Also, in one of the more notorious cases in …
Why I have been absent
I have been off chasing a lost hawk and have had to complete three chapters for a proposal. The latter is done today. Will return…