Anniversary!

Matt who keeps better track than I do tells me this is our NINTH anniversary. Hard to believe… but there have been 3583 posts! Maybe I can convince him to write something about this subject…

Shooting Smallbores

… and WHY smallbores. No time for deep analysis today–  an eagerly awaited guest, last minute prep for the new tiercel including expanded housing, gunsmithery, cooking. But it would come as no surprise to most readers that I am down to using two smallbores: my all- time favorite English .410 (sold away years ago, fortuitously …

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Hybrid Update

Terence Wright just last night sent this photo of the hybrid Black X Red Shouldered Hawk in CA, with this short  note: “Here is a pic of the hybrid chick during  banding.” We will continue to add any updates. I want to see what it looks like after it fledges–  those are two such different …

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Real time

Andre Baca took this phone shot of his uncle, my old friend Lawrence Aragon, and I at the Spur tonight, an hour ago.

La Brea Bees

As I am interested in both bees and the Pleistocene, as any reader knows, this article about bees preserved in the La Brea Pits is impossible to ignore. Oddly, the best explanation of the methods and meaning of the find was in the Comments, by one John Turner: “The original article says the specimens were …

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My home town

… for once, not my long- chosen Querencia of Magdalena, nor a vague gesture to “Boston”, but Easton, the southern Massachusetts town my parents moved us to from a three- decker tenement in  Boston’s blue- collar Dorchester when I was four, and where I lived until I left town at seventeen, After that I returned …

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New Toy

Supposedly Archaeopteryx— but except for the lack of the inner “killer claw” more of a typical feathered Theropod like Deinonychus. Also see A Field Guide to Mesozoic Birds.

Flying Puppies?

After seeing the photo below titled “What is this man doing?” Jess suggested “You have acquired a flying puppy and are playing lure toy with it.” Well, the Gyr Saker coming in soon is called “Itilga” in Turkic: “Dog Hawk” . And I was testing my old pole lure made by the late Frank Beebe, …

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Quote

“If the people who own pets do not come to understand the natural world and the true lives of animals, there will be no animals but pets. I share this so that others might learn from it and benefit from our experiences, not to be lectured by people without boundaries. All animals are not pets, …

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