This will be one illo by Eldridge Hardie from a new collection of the works of North Dakota poet and hunter Tim Murphy. He and El gave it to me! I have been a fan of Eldridge’s work for at least as long as the old Gray’s that we both worked at existed. I brought …
Tag: goshawks
Chukar Hunting the Old Way
My long- time Canadian hunting correspondent, Alex Sharif, who I met through Valerius Geist, is primarily a sheep hunter and a mountaineer. But when he sent me a few photos from his cousin Afshin in Idaho,I was intrigued. Afshin is a Goshawker, and he hunts Chukar in the kind of country they have always inhabited, …
Apache
Paul has his old NM Gos back, a bird who might have been his best. He has descendants, with Finnish genes, and if all goes well I may yet fly one. Accipiter gentilis apache may or may or may not be a valid taxon, but Gila Goshawks are distinctive. First I ever saw was in …
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. …
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 …
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.
T H White Memorial
I am an unabashed fan of Terence Hanbury White; whatever his personal faults and agonies, he left a legacy of good books about things that interest me and my friends– probably all naturalists and writers on country matters and falconers who understand honesty. If he had written just the Arthurian trilogy and The Goshawk he …
Pluvi is back!
And her new book is coming…
1911 with Gos
.45 Auto Colt 1927 Argentine, not to be confused with the Baliester Molina which was not a 1911, not designed by John Moses Browning, and not approved by Colt. This one has only the modern additions which actually contribute to function. It has a nicely worn finish, a good trigger, and is tight as a …
Gos Grips
It may be relevant to my quandary below that the bird I put on my stationery (must scan– it is not a jpeg), western belt buckle, and autopistols has always been a Goshawk, designed from from Japanese art. I have had this: And, on a Commander frame, this: The artist who did the scrimshaw above …