From reader Roberto Buonfante comes this “natural” domestic pair and their young, in Italy: a Buteo X Buteo (Redtail jamaicensis x Ferruginous regalis) mated to a Harris (Parabuteo–!– unicinctus) and their first of several successful clutches. Seems they might make great hare hawks! Roberto writes: “… the Harris [and] the red/ ferr. were placed in …
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Team
From Teddy Moritz: Garmin, a young longhair dachs, working rabbits with an experienced Harris on crusted snow. Good birds make good dogs and vice versa. And: I need a Harris, at last.
Progress?
As several readers who communicate outside of the blog know, the redheaded falcon has been extremely wild and difficult. I had decided to send him back to the breeder and was feeding him to repletion every night. But, as his weight rose, against all expectations he got tamer and tamer. He is now butter- fat, …
Redtail & Rabbits
From around the same time as the photo below– maybe 36 years ago (I had the hawk for six years)– our biggest day, my biggest ever.
Just for Fun
A photo taken on top of the hill in Shutesbury Mass, ca 1974, of me with my redtail tiercel Cinnamon (still one of the best gamehawks I ever had and oddly, like one of the more recent best birds, stolen after years with me), and a friend who is holding my intact rather huge albino …
Hackee sack anyone?
I’ve been working hard all week, either on the computer or on the ranch, so this morning I played hooky and went for a three-hour photo excursion to some of my favorite places in our county. This sandhill crane was busy throwing a chunk of cow manure in the air, hitting it with his head …