..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: Pigeons
Pepe’s Art
My old pigeon partner Jose Morales y Serranno, who met his wife , an Albuquerqe native of Italian descent, returned to Sevilla after getting his PhD in English- speaking writers of the Spanish Civil War. Despite occasional political disagreements- like Pepe’s fellow traveler on the left Stephen Spender, I will never think of Roy Campbell …
Obligatory Pigeon Material
Every so often non- pigeon readers have to put up with a pigeon post- pun intended. These ones are relatively painless, and the second is also of interest to dino- philes, evo- bio- types, and even competitive pigeon show fanciers…(Ava, birds soon- we got the boxes, but one pair is still feeding. You are getting …
They’re Killing Pigeons Again
Tyrants end up killing pigeons; I don’t know why, but they do. Franco almost made the traditional old- fashioned competition “thief” pouters of southern Spain, like the Rafenos I keep, extinct. The Taliban’s mere sixteen “Commandments”, including ones against sorcery and NOT growing beards, include one, the fourth,”To prevent keeping pigeons and playing with birds. …
More pigeons
Must be in the air. Anne Pearse Hocker just sent this piece from the Guardian about how they may be better at detecting tumors (visually, from X rays) than humans. Their rate of detection is something like 99%. Actually I am not surprised– much “Dinosaurian” visual acuity exceeds that of us mammals. And Tesla, everyone’s …
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. …
Scene of the Crime
Is that feathers I see? Maybe this guy?
ISIS hates pigeons
Yes, I know; first Patrick, then others, sent me the news that ISIS is now executing pigeon fanciers, some teenagers. I did predict it a few pages ago. Long ago, I concluded that tyrants tend to get rid of pigeons. Not only are they a primitive form of clandestine, encrypted conversation; watching at them fly …
Sanliurfa
The Kurdish Peshmerga from Iraqi Kurdistan are gathering in the southern Turkish province of Sanliurfa, south of the ancient city once known simply as Urfa, less than forty miles north of the border, looking south, and southeast, where a Kurdish Syrian town is besieged by an ancient enemy with a new face, one seen on …
Photoblogging: Kurdish Turkey II: Village Life
Hounds, houses, house partridge, sheep, field pigeons… Partridge, called “Keklik” are kept as pets and for calling their wild relatives, which they catch with fine nooses… demonstrated below These “swift” pigeons are bred for show in the west but fly free here. The one on the ground had just evaded a wild Peregrine and was …