Not too much other than pix to share, though some books are in the pipeline. Several people have emailed about the peregrine. Everything goes well if slowly (my condition plus cold plus probably more caution than ever!) She is getting well- manned and has no vices. Got to get her on the lure now. Today …
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More Hawking Photos
First a short series of photos taken by Brian Millsap during our last-week hunting trip to Amarillo, Texas. Eric Edwards’s merlin Jimmy Walker and goshawk Turkey at the night roost Taking a break from the wind at 25 degrees Another batch of great photos (more by Eric Edwards) are available in the linked Picasa albumn below. …
More Dog Morons
Sari from our Asia Group sent me a link to this (nearly) unbelievable story about New Guinea singing dogs. It begins: “The New Guinea Singing Dogs are the rarest in the world. Just 150 were known to exist before the bust at Randy Hammond’s home. Now there are 235.” So they “rescued” and neutered them. …
Gumbo take the hindmost…
Where Friday’s jack lives today.
Gun Deal
“Nowadays the shooter who has passed his physical zenith has a doubleinducement for handing in his 30″ barrelled, full- weight, old thoroughbred, and going in for something lighter and faster- handling but in no significant degree inferior, ballistically. These old thoroughbreds are now fetching high prices– much more, in many cases, than they cost… True, …
Visitors
Tom Russell would be too modest to say so but he might just be the best and most lasting singer- songwriter of my generation; while some annoyingly typecast him as a western or cowboy or border balladeer he is in all ways an American bard, a living link between cowboys and the beats and all …
Almost a review
Libby recently read Jeff Lockwood’s Locust. Her letter to him is as good as a short review, and the last line could be a blurb: “I thoroughly enjoyed Locust. My favorite period of US history is the opening of the west during the 1800’s. When I was a kid we took many family trips to …
News (none) and some pix…
No real news good or bad– just BUSY, exercising– sometimes hours a day– to keep PD at bay, gathering wood, getting ready for hunting, lots of guests, cooking, bird training… Still, the past month saw a serious shotgun trade, a new bird, interesting visitors and meals, some reviewable books, and more. I’ll try to blog …
Amarillo 2010
I spent last week hawking in Amarillo, Texas. More pics to come as they filter in from friends, but here are a few from a jackrabbit hunt toward the end of the week. This one flushed close in high cover, which is a good situation for a male Harris hawk like mine (jacks outweigh him …
Spanish mastiffs
As many of you know, husband Jim and I recently traveled to Spain to interview livestock producers about their livestock protection dogs used in wolf country. Spain was one of three emphasis areas on our research trip, which was sponsored by the Wyoming Wool Growers Association and funded by the Wyoming Animal Damage Management board. …