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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:

  1. Exploriment29 October 2011 at 15:47

    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

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  2. The Suburban Bushwacker29 October 2011 at 16:09

    Exploriment

    thanks for the tip
    SBW

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  3. LSP29 October 2011 at 18:49

    I might have to borrow that pic...

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

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Please feel free to leave comments. I really enjoy hearing what readers think. The rules are the same as round my dinner table:

You're welcome to disagree, life would be way too boring if we all agreed with each other and we'd never learn anything.
I like to think that we're all grown up enough to argue every last point, right down to the bone, without bearing a grudge afterwards.



Come on in the waters lovely
SBW