Friday 28 October 2011

Falconry Survey Please Help


My thoughts entirely

Chas who writes the excellent Southern Rockies Nature Blog has mentioned that Helen Macdonald (University of Cambridge) and Mike Nicholls (University of Greenwich) are doing a survey on people's attitudes to falconry, you can guess mine. If you're not doing anything more meaningful - and let's face it if you're reading this you're not - please spend 1 or 2 minutes answering their questions
The survey is here

I've always been fascinated by Falconry and in particular the falconers of the Kazakh and Mongol stepps, so I really enjoyed this piece about a trip by Falconer, naturalist and amazing storyteller Steve Bodio.

It's here Sovereigns of the Sky from Atlantic magazine
More soon
SBW

3 comments:

Exploriment said...

I gave Falcon Fever by Tim Gallagher a read a while back. Gave me a whole new appreciation for the sport/hobby/pastime/life consuming commitment.

http://books.google.com/books?id=PqsSUY17w14C&dq=Falcon+Fever:+A+Falconer+in+the+Twenty-First+Century+%E2%80%93+Tim+Gallagher&source=gbs_navlinks_s

The Suburban Bushwacker said...

Exploriment

thanks for the tip
SBW

LSP said...

I might have to borrow that pic...

Interesting hawk activity round my place lately - they're after the neighbour's chickens.