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Mountain Lion Encounter
Mountain Lion Encounter More This was making the rounds. Not sure what is going on. The lion looks like it is defensive. Cubs, maybe. It could be web BS.
Suicide by snake?
In 2015, a young man in Austin let his pet cobra loose in his car, and it bit him; his death was ruled a suicide. A Man Who Loved Rattlesnakes
Detective
James is a cowboy from an old ranching family and a detective with the Socorro county sherrif’s office and a former former Master of Fox Hounds of the Juan Tomas pack, the youngest in the US when he first got the title. His father was also MFH for the Juan Tomas. His mother, Beth, a …
The science of raptor hunts
Words to Live By
Some of my people: “Dinnae aisk a man in these western lanes his name, his religion, his politicks. Any one a’ them ca’ buy ya’ trouble, and in big letters. Ne’er stray from that, laddie.” From Cloudmaker by Malcolm Brooks
Grassland birds and red cedar
Twenty plus rarely seen pictures of then alive Passenger Pigeons and article
https://www.wisconsinhistory.org/Records?terms=Passenger+Pigeon+Specimen+Photographs https://www.wisconsinhistory.org/Records/Article/CS366?fbclid=IwAR1J5Yr6gorna_pTTcCOGvX43Q7Pl4tA-eJA4tYTfYcxhUGb0J4L-H91w3I Twenty plus rarely seen pictures of then alive Passenger Pigeons and article: I am know sure how newsworthy this is. Steve likely knows.
Terrible new falcon disease
Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza; HPAI; from a NAFA news item: Exposure rates in waterfowl appear to be quite high. Texas Parks and Wildlife reported 10 of 52 blue-winged teal tested positive. Recent testing in Oklahoma showed positive results in “a majority” of blue-winged teal sampled. HPAI has been detected in waterfowl in virtually every state …