The peregrine (who I sometimes call Bella II after an older bird of the same breeding I once had, who moved to Utah ended up killing five- pound sage grouse though she only weighed about what this one does, 23 ounces) is pretty well trained now. She even has good manners. She never screams or …
Tag: Falconry
Team
From Teddy Moritz: Garmin, a young longhair dachs, working rabbits with an experienced Harris on crusted snow. Good birds make good dogs and vice versa. And: I need a Harris, at last.
A Vet Bleg
A good blog friend, the pseudonymously named “Max” of Life Beyond Falconry, has a request for a good friend in dire straits. For many reasons Max and I share a lot of info on active people with dire health problems (an instance: Max lost a spouse to Cystic Fibrosis, which I have a heterozygous gene …
The Kazakh Bird Dog
When I got Ataika from Kazakhstan years ago her people insisted that a good tazi would also work as a bird dog to the gun, and wouldn’t need much training. Atai has always worked as a hare courser and a falcon’s partner (see last weekend’s post) and during the one month she was taken out …
Kipling Goshawk
As mentioned below, Rudyard Kipling’s father John Lockwood Kipling, artist and museum curator, wrote a book on Indian animals (Man and Beast in India, 1892) which includes a bit on falconry. Here is HIS gos.
More Far Away- and Great First Lines
“He sat, in defiance of municipal orders, astride the gun Zam- Zammah on her brick platform opposite the old Ajaib- Gher– the Wonder House, as the natives called the Lahore Museum”. The opening lines of Kim, of course. My friend Grayal Farr, formerly of the Special Forces, naturalist, archaeologist, and fellow Kiplingite (see Kipling’s “The …
Weekend Hunt
We– Terence Wright, Karen Wetherill, their lurcher Loki (grandson of our Plummer and Lashyn), gyr- prairie tiercel Cog, Daniela and her smooth saluki pup Blaze, English master falconer and author of Game Hawk Ray Turner, Libby and Ataika and I– spent January 16- 17 hiking and hawking, first on high La Jencia Plain, on Lee’s …
Training
I like my dogs & hawks to– literally– be able to share a lure or kill. For just one thing it makes the birds eagle- proof in the western field; for another it just makes everything easier. Ataika is a good teacher.
Scotland
Mark McBride may take the largest and most varied bag of any of us as he does pest control and other hunting on neighbors’ Scottish estates. This day saw the initiation of Taik’s niece Nura to ferreting for rabbits. She caught on quickly– no surprise. Nura (the name of the eagle & tazi town in …
Friends in action
New Mexico, Scotland, Pakistan– everywhere friends with dog relatives and near- relatives seem to be having wonderful seasons. Starting close to home, Daniela attended an informal meet where, as she put it: “…every hound in the field that day was descendant from Libby & Steve’s hounds, including these two 5 month puppies, Lily & Lola, …