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More Dogs n’ Birds
Paul’s Zoltar, son of Kyran and Ataika, pensive… … and in the field: A fresh- trapped NM Gos, sadly not mine: The late tazi “Gos” from Kurdistan– those eyes are appropriate! And Vladimir’s new “Sanct Petersburg” tazi pup Timur– new genes,and beautiful!
An Osprey Walks into a Bar…
My brother Mark, who lives in the Virgin Islands, was in his favorite bar when someone brought him this rescue osprey (Bodios are well known bird people). According to Mark, all will be well.
Links
Animal Rights proponents demand that those who want a dog go only to the “overpopulated” shelters. So why are shelters going out of the country to get thousands more dogs? “When animal shelters started going overseas to fill their emptying kennels, some worried the imported strays would bring foreign diseases and even rabies into the …
Nature Writing: Robert Macfarlane
My recent reading of Robert Macfarlane’s fascinating The Wild Places made me think a lot about the differences between (current) American and English “nature writing”, and why I usually like the second better. There are many reasons and not all are related. English nature and natural history writing, like the (I would argue related) genre …
Major Find at the Whydah Wreck
I’ve posted several times about underwater archaeology at the wreck of the Whydah, an 18th century pirate ship sunk off the Massachusetts coast. A couple of months back it was announced that a 4,000 pound metal concretion had been discovered in the wreck. Steve’s sister Karen Bodio-Graham has passed along this article from a local …
California Fires
About this time last year I posted on the tough fire season Southern California was having. Two years ago was one of the wettest in the area for the last 150 years and this past year was about the driest, making for lots of dry fuel. Today’s NY Times reports that this situation has made …
First of the Season
Our first snow storm of the season hit early Sunday morning and left us with 6-7 inches of wet snow. This view of the deck gives you a little better idea of how much accumulation we had. It really was very wet snow. The peach trees on the east side of the house still have …
A Few from Almaty
I couldn’t make it to the Primitive Breeds Conference in Almaty Kazakhstan this year, which is too bad because many of my friends did. Here are two friends, saluki man and Arabist Sir Terence Clark and Vladimir Beregovoy, who is now based in Virginia. He is a biologist, an expert on primitive breeds, and a …
The Pups
Some of our pups at a few months more than a year. John Burchard’s Tigger in the field in California. Sherri Beregovoy’s Clio has a false pregnancy and is hoarding toys which she treats as pups. Sure looks like her mother (below). Clio’s sister Larissa, who we kept, at the ranch. Monica’s Nemrah, another NM …