..as Jack said in a recent email.The Grand Canyon guides knew long before the scientists about the huge stable non- migratory Peregrine population in the Grand Canyon, the Colorado and its tributaries… Photos by the late great Wesley Smith of the homers he used to take down the River in the days of film cameras, …
Tag: Friends
The REAL Eagle Huntress
… with Annyushka, the Merlin Huntress.
New Gorbatov
Anne Price of the REF</> has just sent a link to an enormous bunch of recent work by Vadim Gorbatov</>. Seems like he is doing a lot of urban wildlife lately… (and no, I don’t know why that extra code shows)
Vern Dawson 1962- 2017 RIP
Vernon Dawson died this week, tragically youmg. He was a miner, a craftsman, a drinker, a gentleman, and a friend. Perhaps his problem was the one mentioned long ago by Jimmy Buffett in “A Pirate Looks at Forty” (Forty!): “My occupational hazard bein’ / My occupation’s just not around.” The days of the hard rock …
The Gun Kids take a Road Trip
..To Cody. Nathaniel Fitch and Arthur Wilderson with Cody curator Ashley Hlebinsky. Arthur writes: “We took this picture in one of the basement vaults-within-a-vault at the Buffalo Bill Museum of the West in Cody, WY. Nathaniel managed to get us in with a few phone calls. The lady in front is Ashley Hlebinsky, the curator …
Rockabilly Poetry!
I finally got Effigies II, the London- published collection of five Native female poets that includes Ungie Davila; Most are dutiful to OK, but Ungelbah’s are brilliant, partially because she draws upon the cultural history of New Mexico as seen through the rhinestone – studded red sunglasses and sensibilties of a talented cowpunk artist and …
Tom Cade
The oldest by a bit of the four Peregrine Fund founders, and the only man among them to be born poor (in the Depression era New Mexico Bootheel), my old friend Dr Tom Cade is still going strong at nearly ninety, Tim Gallagher caught up to him at the Irish Falconers meet, accompanied by a …
Domenic “Doc” Conca, DDS- 1925- 2016, R.I.P.: on Conca’s Lawn.
One of my unmentioned mentors died at 91 a couple of days ago: Dr Domenic Conca of Randolph, Massachusetts. “Doc” was the father of my oldest friend, Michael Conca, who was my schoolmate from first grade through my first year in college (BC: I dropped out), as well as my housemate and partner in a …
The First Eagle Huntress?
However admirable Ashiolpan seems (and she is), and however fine the movie the Eagle Huntress is (and I suspect it is, and I want to see it), SHE IS NOT THE FIRST EAGLE HUNTRESS. This mistaken belief is particularly promulgated by American reviewers and I know I shouldn’t expect much of them; I should only …
Flyover Country- Who Knew?
Reading the WSJ, I was startled to encounter two old friends in an unusual context. The relevant passage: I called Russsell, who is in California and recovering from a shoulder operation ( casting lead- core steelhead lines in deep water for 60 years has got to have SOME effect!) and he was as bemused as …