Making Connections....
I am sitting in the Phoenix airport waiting for my overnight flight to Nova Scotia and reading a wonderful new book, H is for Hawk, by the British naturalist and writer, Helen MacDonald. The book, reminiscent of Annie Dillard's ground-breaking Pilgrim at Tinker Creek in 1975, is a memoir of the author's experience training a goshawk in modern-day London. It address many things including the ancient art of falconry, but especially the complex moral issues involved in taming wild birds, and the rights of some species to kill others.
I remembered taking photos of a hawk in my back yard in Hudson, Florida last spring and of being horrified later that day to see 'my" hawk snatch and devour a squirrel in front of my eyes. Here is one of those photos, with a more traditional profile of the same hawk in the comment box below.
Bonnie, if you read this.... you would love this book!
Making Connections....
I am sitting in the Phoenix airport waiting for my overnight flight to Nova Scotia and reading a wonderful new book, H is for Hawk, by the British naturalist and writer, Helen MacDonald. The book, reminiscent of Annie Dillard's ground-breaking Pilgrim at Tinker Creek in 1975, is a memoir of the author's experience training a goshawk in modern-day London. It address many things including the ancient art of falconry, but especially the complex moral issues involved in taming wild birds, and the rights of some species to kill others.
I remembered taking photos of a hawk in my back yard in Hudson, Florida last spring and of being horrified later that day to see 'my" hawk snatch and devour a squirrel in front of my eyes. Here is one of those photos, with a more traditional profile of the same hawk in the comment box below.
Bonnie, if you read this.... you would love this book!