I always like XKCD, but this is my new favorite:
Author: Steve Bodio
Preview Pix
Baby Gyr- Saker tiercel just in from New York, having his first meal at Casa Querencia. Stephen Grant of London Best quality hammer side- lever 12- bore, circa 1880, virtually new and unrestored. It weighs a bit over 7 lbs and is probably a pigeon gun. To quote expert Robert Braden: “After all, it is …
I’m baaack!– links & previews
Spent the last couple of weeks doing a proposal, outline, and sample chapters, for a book I hope will take me back to Kazakhstan. Let’s hope that this turns out better than the last (still in limbo.) But despite brokeness and worry some good stuff has been happening, to say the least. Not only have …
Links
Frantically working on a book proposal, but still surfing. Here are a few links for fun and annoyance… I am with the Codger on this one: can’t fault a tame bear for acting like a bear. More fatalistic societies don’t: “When an elephant kills its mahout in Sri Lanka and India, new mahouts clamor to …
Forthcoming..
Many readers seem to have responded to my Amazon Wish List, but only a couple- Lauren’s Colin Simms and Mike’s Joe Brown– have come in yet. Books by mail are notoriously slow, but I shall personally thank each donor as they come in, and review every one. I also have some non- gift reviews coming …
Spring Duck Hunting
Cat Urbigkit provides a splendid sequence of a young Bald eagle taking a shot at a Merganser.
Hare Hawking
Tom McIntyre (his most recent book is here) sent this You Tube of a Saker falcon attempting to catch a hare in Arabia. It is much like we do, except that WE still use salukis to help (ok, Asian tazis) and we don’t chase the hare with the truck! The hare still gets away though– …
Sunday Links
Busy busy busy which is good, but lots of stuff out there as well… The BBC discovers that places with guns are more peaceful and safe than London, though they can’t quite believe it. HT Reid. Relatedly, the Atomic Neds have a pleasant encounter in Los Alamos. I agree- if you have pistols at all …
Two Poems with Hawks in Them
I mean to post more poetry. Two short whole ones here. First, from Colin Simms’ Gyrfalcon Poems, “Hesitates at the Apex” : Hesitates at the apex, hovers wind his acceptanceuntil he topples over the edge of his calculus;stoops as an arrow will fall, the archer lifted to cross,clear, and drop vertical behind their defencesperhaps no …
.. And: Art of the Week
The “Quote” below reminded me that I had promised an “Art of the Week” post and have been remiss. So, its choice inspired by recent correspondence on woodcock with Doc Hypercube , an exquisite hanging dead snipe watercolor by Thomas Aquinas Daly. These birds were shot by Tom in Colorado, a departure for the artist, …