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Querencia Country Part 3: Mountains
We are nestled into the north end of the Magdalena range, and just a bit east of the parallel, longer, wetter San Mateos. Both stand over 10,000 feet high, giving us a variety of climate unknown in places with less variation in elevation. Though we are in an arid part of the country, interior valleys …
Strange Tri- Hybrids
From reader Roberto Buonfante comes this “natural” domestic pair and their young, in Italy: a Buteo X Buteo (Redtail jamaicensis x Ferruginous regalis) mated to a Harris (Parabuteo–!– unicinctus) and their first of several successful clutches. Seems they might make great hare hawks! Roberto writes: “… the Harris [and] the red/ ferr. were placed in …
Forward
I am going to move a url for the YouTube of me & PD research (we are at the beginning and end for anyone coming for the first time), forward a time or two, both for the sake of the UNM research center and because many have emailed saying they enjoyed the glimpses of me …
Querencia Country Part 2: Town
Casa Q, and just around the corner looking south to the Magdalenas, winter and early, dry summer:… and, looking west, a lurid monsoon sunset in July..All photos within a hundred yards from where I type.
Where I Live: Querencia Country Part 1
This is either overdue or redundant. But when I sent some of these to not very “Anonymous” commenter- in- chief Lane Batot, to satisfy his curiosity about the country, he thought I should blog them. The physical “structure” of the land, and its use patterns, will be utterly familiar to Westerners but perhaps a bit …
Kazakh portraits
I’ve been doing some experimenting with black-and-white, and thought I’d share a few images of the Kazakh men who hunt with golden eagles that I met while I was in western Mongolia in 2008.
Book And Review Preview
The Gos & Claret again, appropriately added to cover of an advanced reader’s copy to preview the forthcoming US publication, by Skyhorse, of Luke Jennings’ Blood Knots.When it was published in England a few years ago it blew me away– a melancholic, elegiac meander through several lives, beginning with a scene of urban slum pike …
Falconry Wonk Quote
Utah attorney Jason Jones on the proposed regulation of domestic hybrid falcons by the federal government: [The Fish & Wildlife Service’s] “…attempting to regulate the possession of non-native hybrids,… based on FWS’s assertion that their law enforcement agents may have difficulty distinguishing hybrid raptors from native raptors, is the equivalent to the DEA attempting to …
Michael’s fly; more connections…
As promised, the “Goshawk & Claret”, on its cover letter from Michael Simon back in 2000 [I had put 1990, meant to type 1999, and it was actually 2000!]The reason for the Khyber Pass falconer- with- Gos in “Teaser”, below, is that Michael spent a good bit of his youth in Afghanistan before war tore …