Matt Mullenix, our original co- blogger, is still around. Last week he sent me this fine photo set, and when I asked him to blog them he said he couldn’t get in. We must fix this; meanwhile, opening day:
Tag: Falconry
Birdage
Pigeons and Accips, of course… From Ava, who breeds from some of my best stock; first, a pic in defiance of the Islamic “State”, aka the Desert Plague, and its deranged fear of pigeon genitalia: And an even better photo of her with a favorite, a dark blue chequered “New Mexico Rafeno” of my breeding. …
A contrarian view on eagle conservation
I had published this on Jameson Parker’s blog in response to a question and it occurred that it would make an interesting little essay. But some have misunderstood it, so let me give you my conclusions before my reasoning: I don’t think (Golden) eagles are in any way endangered, but I support protection for them. …
“Mainstreaming” Falconry?
Of course, the biggest thing is Helen in Vogue and pieces on her in the New Yorker and interviews with her on NPR. The FUNNIEST was the New York Review of Books using her to advertise their edition of T. H. White’s The Goshawk (“the book that inspired Helen Macdonald, author of H is for …
Helen Rockstar!
Randy Davis wrote me today to tell me about a signing for Tom McGuane’s new book– I will delay getting it until I can get an inscribed one in Denver. He was at the Strand with Tom Brokaw. “My oldest son went to see/hear the McGuane – Brokaw show at Strand Books in Manhattan. Late …
T. H. White, falconer
Thanks to the efforts of Stacia Novy, with a little help from me and Conor Jameson, Terence Hanbury White, author of The Goshawk and The Once and Future King among many other books, will be recognized as a falconer with a plaque on the wall of remembrance at the Archives of Falconry, at the World …
Coffee Table Still Life
Helen is published in Vogue. It must be the first time the act of befriending a Goshawk has been featured there. (tip from Randy D). She has also gotten a second prestigious literary prize, this time the Costa, I think what used to be called the Whitbread.
Image, sent
The late Rio chases a pigeon… (click to enlarge)
“A Hundred Sorrows”
Old Year news, which I didn’t want to make anyone sad about during the Holidays. In the kind of coincidence weirdly common in falconry– see the quote referenced above and quoted in full below– good friends (and good falconers) lost both my birds in one December week. Rio/ Guero had been brought to the point …
Found– no, SENT- image
From Toby Jurovics, a Titian, early 1500’s: “Giorgio Cornaro with Falcon celebrates Giorgio Cornaro the Younger’s election into the Maggior Consiglio or the Great Council of Venice. “ I had never seen it, and wrote to Toby that I preferred it to the better- known Holbein of Sir Robert Cheseman with a Gyr. Henry 8’s …