Post by Ooby on Mar 30, 2005 21:11:49 GMT -5
This isn't exactly a falconry book, as it covers many facets of ourdoor life. Stephen Bodio has been a falconer for most of his life, and one hell of a poetic writer. This book paints pictures that most falconers should aspire to.
Something that might upset some people, but one of the things i got from this book, that makes me feel like an apprentice more than ever:
A section of the book entitled Grouse Camp. Just a bunch of old falconers getting together for some grouse hawking. Although the people attending are what struck me so hard.
Jim Weaver: A man who has traveled the world over flying birds, from the rivers in greenland, to the cliffs over zambezi.
Kent Carnie: A retired colonel in intelligence and wildlife biologist. A man who has banded birds in Turkey and the Soviet Union, even trapping and banding falcons on the northern border of Iran, a place not too hospitable to westerners; along with hunting the highlands of scotland for red grouse.
Tom Cade: The name right off should ring a bell. MISTER P Fund. The guy who took falconers breeding stock, and engineered the return of the peregrin falcon in North America.
Thomas McGuane: Cades right hand man in the P Fund.
Im leaving out quite a bit, and even semi plagurized a few sentence fragments, but the point is, LOOK at what these guys have done with and to the sport. These guys are modern day legends, and have shaped the face of falconry more than i could ever hope to. They have given more to it than i could ever give, and gotten more from it than i could ever get.
If you enjoy falconry, and the outdoors. Pick up some books by Bodio. They are one hell of a read. So far, ive read 2, in as many days.
Something that might upset some people, but one of the things i got from this book, that makes me feel like an apprentice more than ever:
A section of the book entitled Grouse Camp. Just a bunch of old falconers getting together for some grouse hawking. Although the people attending are what struck me so hard.
Jim Weaver: A man who has traveled the world over flying birds, from the rivers in greenland, to the cliffs over zambezi.
Kent Carnie: A retired colonel in intelligence and wildlife biologist. A man who has banded birds in Turkey and the Soviet Union, even trapping and banding falcons on the northern border of Iran, a place not too hospitable to westerners; along with hunting the highlands of scotland for red grouse.
Tom Cade: The name right off should ring a bell. MISTER P Fund. The guy who took falconers breeding stock, and engineered the return of the peregrin falcon in North America.
Thomas McGuane: Cades right hand man in the P Fund.
Im leaving out quite a bit, and even semi plagurized a few sentence fragments, but the point is, LOOK at what these guys have done with and to the sport. These guys are modern day legends, and have shaped the face of falconry more than i could ever hope to. They have given more to it than i could ever give, and gotten more from it than i could ever get.
If you enjoy falconry, and the outdoors. Pick up some books by Bodio. They are one hell of a read. So far, ive read 2, in as many days.