August 31, 2008 – 7:30 am
In 1936 the season was closed on canvasback, redhed, bufflehead, wood duck, ruddy duck and brant. The great drought that caused the dust bowl combined with predation, fires, disease and a lack of best practices had annihilated the duck population. From S. Kip Farrington Jr.’s 1945 book “The Ducks Came Back: The Story of Ducks Unlimited”:  Duck [...]
August 24, 2008 – 10:41 am
I went shopping last night —Â on purpose rather than on accident like I normally do. I hate shopping for clothes. I hate even figuring out what to wear. Yet, I think I had fun. When I got home, I opened up my bags and was taken aback by the splash of bright colors and gauzy [...]
August 10, 2008 – 9:45 am
A lot of feinting and yelping… right? [kml_flashembed movie="http://www.youtube.com/v/QhXlpcWGzyE" width="425" height="350" wmode="transparent" /]
But you can definitely detect the ”run off” involved in farming marijuana once it gets in the water… At least you can in the case of discovering two major plantations just south and up the hill from me about five miles away. I would like to point out that we would all be in much better mood down [...]
My first year living in Banning a neighbor asked me if “the bear got in your trash too.” Surely, he meant a possum, I thought, but I asked around and three other neighbors spotted the bear as well. “They always come down in the spring.” I was assured there was nothing to worry about and I [...]
…STAR WARS!  DVD will be here on Friday. Happy weekend!! (Pathetic. I know. When is falconry season starting?) [kml_flashembed movie="http://www.youtube.com/v/0rSrtJa29Jc" width="425" height="350" wmode="transparent" /]
 I was a bit taken aback by a recent article in The Flyer from IAATE adamantly supporting legislation to make the already illegal killing of birds of prey a felony. I understand that the legislation would target those who engage in the “deliberate and wanton killing†of raptors and that this sort of behavior is grievous [...]
Parrot blogging via jott. Now Ty will do a math problem for you. Ty, seven minus three? Ty, what’s seven minus three? Four. Good bird. listen Powered by Jott So it took him three times to answer…but he wasn’t real pleased about having a cell phone shoved in his face. I think he did fabulously [...]
Testing jott, too cool posting blogs from my cellphone. listen Powered by Jott HT to Doc Hypercube from Twitter Post
Besides tons of the obvious key words like my name and falconry blog here’s some interesting ways people stumbled on to my blog: Paw print confetti Lazy roller pigeons Verbal repertoire Shatner Toe wiggling men (eh?) Pigeon Repellent (Hmmn) Screw the pooch (I love this phrase!) Do falcons attack small dogs? (And that’s one way [...]
