Perfect shot of a Merlin stooping in England courtesy of John Loft, the living master of Merlins — right click for big.
Tag: Falconry
Best Coursing Photos of the Year!
Terence Wright sent these pics from the Albuquerque gang last night. His, Greg’s, and Warren’s dogs at least are represented, and Greg’s gyr cross Spook. I am envious– come on down! Meanwhile, right click to enlarge as always. I believe these last two are double grandchildren of Ataika and Lashyn. UPDATE: the black dog is …
Asian Perch
Since Mima went nuclear on Lashyn, I have been in a quandary re “what bird?” Though there are some exotic possibilities, my perennial favorites have always been gosses and tiercel falcons with gyr and saker genes. I worry about keeping up with the falcons, nor can I afford or easily control a horse, though I …
Disaster averted
Where to start? We had been extremely happy with Mima, for several weeks. We even took her to Wyoming with us as you can see on the blog. She was gradually reducing and was almost down to 800 grams. I was planning to fly her free this week, and was just trying to get the …
Hares (and coyotes) beware
Lauren is coming…
I want these
Plates by Vadim Gorbatov
Partners?
Soon, maybe: Ataika and Mima spy a deer at Jim’s house west of Laramie.
Assertive Hawk
Mima saith: MY T- perch…
Moroccan Hawk ID
Terence Clark has been in Morocco for the Festival of Traditional Hunting, where he photographed some hawks. Most were Peregrines of the migrant race that they call Shahin Bari, “Bari” meaning “of the sea”– probably the far- northern Falco peregrinus calidus, which may have flown from as far as Siberia. But the young man on …
Manners
These hounds from about a century ago were more polite than mine (courtesy of James Wayne, who sold us the first Darne shotgun sometime well in… the last century). Click to see properly. Lily the Dachs had, and Warren’s Tazi granddogs show good manners though…