Up in Colorado Anne Price (of the REF) and her female merlin Larkyn have also been busy. “… a week after almost losing her, my gal did the craziest thing I’ve ever seen her do in 3.25 seasons of flying her: she went and robbed/stole a starling from a wild female prairie falcon! It was …
Tag: Falconry
One Owl
Nate and Nan are in their second season with their tame, fascinating, and often frustrating great horned owl. The bird does take game, and it makes for an expansion of “hawking” hours for two busy people (Nan’s store here) and great pictures, but as Nate said: “.. I had a horned owl kick my ass …
Some Photoblogging plus…
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 …
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. …
A meeting in the sage …
Yesterday afternoon as I was returning home from visiting a friend, I turned down a county road that traverses through the sagebrush uplands next to the New Fork River and noticed a pickup truck out in the sage, with two men near the tailgate, with a bird dog. Intrigued, I drove by slowly, and finally …
Neglected Book
Rebecca O’Connor’s Lift, her literary falconry memoir and one of the best falconer’s memoirs ever written, had such good press I thought it would automatically be come a success (this despite my having written to her about “… terrific reviews, indifferent agents, incompetent publishers, [and] few sales…”). But NOOO. She has sold only 411 copies. …
Progress?
As several readers who communicate outside of the blog know, the redheaded falcon has been extremely wild and difficult. I had decided to send him back to the breeder and was feeding him to repletion every night. But, as his weight rose, against all expectations he got tamer and tamer. He is now butter- fat, …
Redtail & Rabbits
From around the same time as the photo below– maybe 36 years ago (I had the hawk for six years)– our biggest day, my biggest ever.
Just for Fun
A photo taken on top of the hill in Shutesbury Mass, ca 1974, of me with my redtail tiercel Cinnamon (still one of the best gamehawks I ever had and oddly, like one of the more recent best birds, stolen after years with me), and a friend who is holding my intact rather huge albino …
Eagle Accessories
Lauren brought back a lot of eagle equipment from Asia (as we all do) but as she had spent more time and been more places. Most useful were a couple of pairs of eagle — boots?– gloves? At any rate, foot warmers for the birds’ naked feet (golden eagle legs are thickly feathered). The boots …