This wild hawk has developed a trusting relationship with me. This bond we have together is because of one thing…… she’s hungry. She has learned that I will feed her, and feed her well!! These hawks that are used in falconry are true athletes. It’s amazing watching them as they fly. Why doesn’t she just […]
There it is! That first step of trust and the bond that will grow between two very different creatures. One creature is a very wild hawk, the other creature is …….me. “Dak” has experienced being trapped from the wild, tethered to a perch in his new home, and placed repeatedly back on my glove. I
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I caught a wild hawk by using what he’s good at…… and using it against him. Here’s how. [Note: Possession of any bird of prey requires a permit and falconry license. They are not pets!!] A hawk survives by catching his food. He has an unreal ability to see. Their eyesight is phenomenal. Put it
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. I’m putting these boots back on! Five years ago I bought these boots to wear as I walked/ exercised/ got in shape. I was getting into shape to live above the world, (and in the peaks of the Sangre De Cristo Mountains). But,….. I’ve been busy the past two years building our log home.
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Boy, did I make a mistake. Yep, ole mountain man has got to confess that he blew it. Should of known better…….. There were tracks in the snow behind our log house. Big tracks, tracks the size of my extended hand. Something BIG had walked below our house. Definitely not a deer, not a dog,
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I feel like I’m at an airport. This picture is showing pinion jays cruising in and out on their natural runways. It doesn’t take long for these birds to find the food in my bird feeders. Chickadees, jays, nuthatches, woodpeckers, red-winged blackbirds, grosbeaks, and some sparrows all come to dine at Dan and Staci’s buffet
Wow what a beautiful scene! God can really put on a show of Glory with His creations. Seems like every day it’s a different view, a different painting. He’ll have a cloud here, a different tone of red, purple, or yellow there. Some mountains up close, some mountains far away. oh, and let’s put a
Go to the middle of nowhere, turn south six miles, and you’ll find this abandoned house with an apple tree right beside it that is loaded with apples!! The house was probably built 1890 – 1915 when the mining, ranching, railroad activities were in the area. All that’s gone now. Even the house is barely
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Years ago, I had a Lassie Collie named Casey. She got bitten on the jaw by a copperhead. I rushed her to the vet. The vet treated her life and death situation,…….but it wasn’t the snakebite that was killing her!!! Casey was my companion. Wherever I went she went with me. She loved me. She
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