My friend Jonathan Millican, falconer and Marine helicopter pilot, passed through Baton Rouge last weekend and stopped for a visit. It was uncharacteristically cold, which is hard to tell from the Springtime look of the field we slipped into for a stroll with our dogs. But days like that are some of my favorites in …
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Spring Snow
We had a couple days of rain early in the week that of course fell as snow in the mountains. That gave a fresh coating of white to Mt. Evans (14,264 ft.) west of us… and Pikes Peak (14,110 ft.) to our south. We have also been having some wind, which if you look closely …
Bat Falconry?
Couldn’t resist posting this re comments below…
More Dog Food Recalls…
… here. I am disturbed by the refusal to name names– the brand I use contains rice. Patrick has commented on dog food with his usual curmudgeonly good sense, but I am beginning to wonder if the more sensible versions of the BARF diet might be a good idea, at least for those of us …
Egregious– and Hilarious– Error
Do editors (as opposed to acquisitions people and Spellcheck) exist any more? First, visit Pluvi’s post, appropriately titled AAAARGH! For non- birders, the cover of The Peregrine does not show a Peregrine or even a falcon; the cover of The Goshawk shows a Gyrfalcon. Now, go here. See the long bio of Nobel Prize- winning …
Bird- Eating Bats
Dr. Hypercube was kind enough to unearth Darren’s old post on bird- eating bats and my additions re New World hoary bats: “The hoary bat, Lasiurus cinereus, has some very strange “spatial” habits. In the summer, the males live in the southwest, while the females range as far north as the Arctic circle. In the …
More Vadim
You can get a print of this, in true color, from the REF– see Reid’s post below.
Mystery
We store our good cut glass rim- down; perhaps we shouldn’t. Libby lifted this one up and it separated from its rim, perfectly, as though it had been cut. There was NO pattern where it separated. Anyone with a physics, engineering, glassmaking background have any ideas? I have an idea a similar phenomenon was noted …
Bloggy links
Shrunken heads are not pc! I would think not. One of the joys of the Pitt-Rivers Museum, and the reason that it is a treasure trove, is that its collections come from a more self- confident age. See link to it in favorites. HT David Zincavage, who is self- confident. Here is a wonderful map …
Busy not Dead…
As I said below in comments. The eagle book, sure, but other deals are in the air, including but not limited to new editions, new gun articles, new (old) gun deals, new Gorbatov projects, new birds… Probably only afew will work out but there has been more in the air in the last two weeks …