As some of you know, Larissa is pregnant by Tavi at Shiri’s.
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Accipiters
Everywhere, doing their courting flights even in town. My reading indicates Coopers at least are becoming urbanized; the Eurasian gos nests in city parks in Russia. This is the first in my thirty some years here that they have ventured so close to humans this deep into their breeding cycle. The poor pic is of …
Passenger Pigeon Diorama
After Steve’s post I thought I would put up this picture of the beautiful PP diorama in the Denver Museum of Nature & Science. If I remember correctly it is set somewhere in Iowa.
Passenger Pigeons # 1
Trying something new here. I have either three or four new possible books on deck, though how I will find energy to do them all is a… challenge. One is natural history and ornithology, one a novel, long set -aside, and I am not sure I want to say more about either it or the …
What is this man DOING?
And how long is he likely to be doing it? From the cover of a new issue of a venerable outdoor mag that employs several friends, a “re- creation” of a 1912 cover. Well, sorta, kinda… But: how many times has this man been on a horse? How long do you think the horse’s ears …
The “Damn Chicken Song”
.. and one I first heard in I think 1967 in Cambridge. Tom Russell and Ian Tyson in Santa Fe April 17! “All the years are… gambled and lost, like summer wages.”
Quotes on Boooks and Writing
From Larry McMurtry: “The reader might well ask why this account of the expanding and contracting of my various libraries matters at all. “I could give several answers to the question but the simplest one is that you write what you’ve read, to a large degree– and, just as importantly, you write what you will …
Two rather biological quotes
From William Hamilton, the eccentric genius whose new biography is on the way, and from our old neighbor David Quammen, who chronicled Bill’s demise from the complications of malaria meds in his Spillover, review on deck at last… Hamilton, from volume 3 of his collected works: “For me it seems that the universe only needs …
Returning with links and quotes
Busy, busy, busy, with lots of work and lots and lots of visitors– great stuff except exhaustion makes me sleepless and “Parky”. Lots of links, many quotes, news (the biggest for me: negotiating to reprint 5 backlist books including Eagle Dreams!) Sportsman’s Library out and getting praise, and new book prospects getting more likely, with …
The rookery
Just a dozen miles upriver from our place is a Great Blue Heron rookery. I’ve often seen herons there, but never really spent any time observing this concentrated nesting area until this year. I was at the rookery today, waiting for the sun to rise to watch the birds that have gathered there. It was …