Action! Duck hawking with Peregrine, shot by Dan Gauss: And a calm return:
Author: Steve Bodio
Gos Grips
It may be relevant to my quandary below that the bird I put on my stationery (must scan– it is not a jpeg), western belt buckle, and autopistols has always been a Goshawk, designed from from Japanese art. I have had this: And, on a Commander frame, this: The artist who did the scrimshaw above …
Magdalena’s Poet
Bruce Holsapple wasn’t born here any more than I was (“I’m not from here/ I just live here”– James McMurtry); but sooner or later you make your stand. Would you not credit Gary Snyder and his adopted watershed in the dry Sierra, or me in my Querencia? Bruce has been here long enough to put …
Happy Birthday 2
… to Dr John Burchard, scientist, man of letters, scholar, adventurer in far places, and one of the best tellers of tales I know. As the old saying has it, he has forgotten more about “salukiformes” and falconry than almost anyone else in our time has ever learned. Like me, he was a Massachusetts boy …
Happy Birthday!
“…driving back, the sun descends Throwing a gold sheen above the dark mountains Turn in to get mail– Libby at the wood desk, she’ll have the flag lowered next close the lobby at 5:00 she’s free if she has the energy…” From Bruce Holsapple’s good new book of poems, Wayward Shadow. I’ll have more to …
Conundrum: In which I ask my readers a question…
At almost 64, in difficult health, one takes decisions about acquiring animals ever more seriously (obviously I hope, I mean animals you work and play with– hounds, horses, hawks)… We are going through much soul- searching over our “last” dog; not morbidly; actually one reason we must choose carefully is that we want an Ataika …
Hereditary cool?
My late friend Aralbai of Bayan Olgii was sometimes known as “The Coolest Man in the World”, on the strength of this sort of… call it an Internet poster made (not by us) of him: Here he is in younger days, with his son in 1997 on our first expedition. He was a dedicated hunter, …
Bobcat
Bobcats are relatively common here; seeing one without hunting it, much less so. So when John Wilson caught this image on his new camera trap, I was excited (he lives about ten miles out of town in the foothills). I think I am going to get one. I am inclined to set in in the …
“First the Hawk…”
Matt Mullenix is still part of the team here at Q, but has temporarily misplaced his access, so has asked me to post these reflections on perfectionism he wrote down after yesterday’s hawking, and my response. The phrase comes from the useful maxim, one of the first any aspiring falconer should memorize and carve on …
What wine goes with..?
A reliable guide: