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Peruvian Pasos, for Harry McElroy
One of my falconry heroes (one I share with hundreds of other falconers) is Harry McElroy of Arizona. I call Harry the Dean of American Gamehawking. His experience in the sport spans six decades and covers most of the ground between North and South America. He is known especially for his love of quail hawking …
Babysitting
I drive by a hay meadow outside of Pinedale on a regular basis and always look at the pronghorn antelope that inhabit that spot. In the last few weeks, there were about five does that had their fawns in the meadow. This afternoon I had to laugh, since this one doe had apparently been assigned …
Wet season delights
It’s rained here almost every afternoon for a month, making big changes to our range, which has suffered from 10 years of drought. Jim and I had to look these birds up in the bird book because we’ve never seen them in the hay meadow before. They are Wilson’s phalaropes. It has a peculiar way …
Caddis Art
Really! The French artist Hubert Duprat gave gold, turquoise, and other precious metals and stones, to caddis larvae to build their “houses. The results are astonishing. The article gets a bit into “artspeak” but it is worth a look. HT Malinda Chouinard.
The Mighty Tranter
While browsing at The Suburban Bushwacker I was introduced to a new blog With the unlikely name of Lone Star Parson. It seems SB and LSP were partners in a punk band years go before LSP became an Anglican priest and moved to Texas. Whether he was a gun nut in England or not, he …
A Guest Post
Introducing Lane Batot, who often comments, especially on dogs and domestication. I hope we will be seeing him here again! “With a diverse(some would say eccentric)interest and experiences with canines and the outdoors(usually combining the two in some fashion), and as a big fan of this blog, I have been invited to “guest-write”(not to be …
Free Speech Challenge in Supreme Court
Hawker, digger, long-dogger and outdoors writer Teddy Moritz forwarded this news of a case to be heard by the Supreme Court. It regards the editor and seller of a hunting dog video who was convicted on federal law prohibiting “depictions of animal cruelty;” his conviction was later overturned on 1st Amendment grounds, but US prosecutors …
Ten-Percenters
I speculated recently that if Americans provided just 10% of their own food via gardening and hunting, Monsanto would have a cow. I wondered further: Could any elected official propose such an alarming change in the national status quo? More importantly, Could the average American even pull it off? Ten percent. Every day. Michael Pollan …
Attack of the Scientific Reductionists
LiveScience reported yesterday on new research published in this month’s Genetics (the journal of the Genetics Society of America) attempting to determine the existence and location of genes for “tameness” in animals. According to the LiveScience version, “A study of nasty and nice lab rats has scientists on the verge of knowing the genes that …