It’s a goshawk, probably to no one’s surprise– a tiny watercolor by Tom Quinn, “Two Shades of Blue”. The week after he painted it he sent me a transparency, writing “This fell out of my brush…” The painted gos is actually smaller in real life (of the painting I mean) than a Steller’s jay, her …
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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 …
Goshawkery
Fall is coming and my thoughts turn to hawks and bird guns first. I don’t know if I will have a chance to train a Gos again or not, but they will forever remain a favorite, flown in a circumpolar band by virtually every falconry culture because of their utility and I suspect beauty, though …
Goshawks in Love
Courtesy of Pecular. Happy Valentine’s Day! Here’s a link to a bigger version of the photograph, and here is one to the photographer, photoblogger Juanma Hernandez: Gos photos and more, including the first action scenes I have ever seen of a wryneck…
Originals
My visual totem is a Japanese Goshawk– see my pistol, buckle, and more. I have seen originals even if I couldn’t hope to own one, though apparently Paddy Leigh Fermor had TWO. Here are some re- views of just a couple of mine and a hint to some though not all of their models…
Pluvialis Sighting
Reports on Helen’s work in progress– here and here. A quote from the first: ” I’m busy writing that book. The one about grief and goshawks and death and love and landscape and home and, well. All the things.” And from the second: “It is the story of a journey into wildness with a creature …
Variations on a Theme
Mabel
Helen’s Gos.
Apologies and some light blogging: Prairie Gos
Have been ruining my health and especially my right, mouse- running hand (Parkinson’s overlaid with arthritis exacerbated by gout and maybe carpal tunnel syndrome- AAARGH!) working overtime on the last details for the eagle book- I promise a real cover soon. I need a few days away from this keyboard, working at the town library.To …
Gos in action
From Paul Domski: a few of the amazing photo sequence that photographer Mark Wiliams shot of his Gos. (As always click to enlarge). Mark’s site is here.