Photos from Terence Wright prove that the descendants of the late Plummer, the creaky Lashyn, and the still healthy Taik and Kyran are doing well at that rarest and oldest form of team pursuit hunting here in New Mexico: Fubar is a perfect example of how falconry can rehabilitate a seemingly hopeless bird. Terence wrote: …
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Ranch Life
Jim and I had a little time to kill on our friend Pete’s ranch today when we went to pick up our rams. I thought Q readers might enjoy a quick tour. The photo above provides the setting – a western Wyoming ranch, at the foothills of the Wind River Mountains. Livestock guardian puppies awaken …
UPDATE: Cooper’s release
Steve and Libby releasing the haggard Cooper’s hawk that visited their pigeon loft recently.
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Si jeunesse savait, si vieillesse pouvait. (“If youth only knew, if age only could.”) Suggested by Gerry & Derb almost simultaneously.
Three Thousand Posts!
Scribble, Scribble… Sometimes I feel like it too. Ages of a writer… (recent suggestions added since yesterday) Pre- Malaria: fat in Zim Writers with first books MANY years later
Haggard
I want a Cooper’s hawk but this one is a breeding adult, too old and too valuable to the population to keep, not to mention illegal. She trapped into my flight loft today and I will release her to make more tomorrow. She weighs nearly a pound, huge for a western Coop, and is a …
Eagle & Child
My reaction in email was: Consensus is that it is fake– have been dealing with tons of mail on it. I heard of one eagle in Mongolia 20 years ago that attacked a kid but it is rare if it happens. Africa’s Crowned eagle is another story. A primate and antelope predator of the forest, …
Eagle Snatches Child in the Park: Thoughts?
UPDATE: Huffington post reveals evidence of faked footage. For those keeping score at home, I’m now two for two at perpetuating bogus memes on this blog. My next post, should there be one, will contain only factual content (Boring, yes, but safer.) –Matt Mullenix A Facebook friend forwarded the above video footage. Perhaps you’ve see it, …
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“Thus my advice to the aspiring fiction writer: don’t be tempted by that graveyard of literary talent, creative writing courses. Take a sharp turn and study history instead.” – Caleb Carr, WSJ Weekend
One more on Plum
… To thank everyone; I will not belabor the point or fill the blog. Jameson Parker sent Robinson Jeffers’ wonderful tribute to his bulldog Grip. In part: I hope than when you are lying Under the ground like me your lives will appear As good and joyful as mine. No, dear, that’s too much hope: …