Yesterday I hiked one of my all-time favorite trails, the Tomales Point Trail at Point Reyes Nationals seashore. It’s always a great hike for viewing wildlife, and yesterday I got to watch Tule Elk, Northern Harriers, and even a big Striped Skunk foraging in a canyon. But my favorite was a close encounter [...]
I’ve seen them on the trails at Ragle before…sometimes a woman is with the dog, sometimes a man. If they see another dog coming, they pull off the trail and hold the dogs head, bent over, telling the dog to be quiet as it growls because of us. I wondered about this training [...]
A few years ago, Steve and I attended several lectures about raptors by Alida Morzenti, in preparation for training to handle captive birds of prey. The lectures were fascinating, but one image stuck with me more than any other…the eagle hunters of western Mongolia.
Alida described how the hunters would travel out onto the steppe, [...]
Via Justinsomnia, we have this sort of peculiar video about urban beekeeping:
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