Falconer Rebecca O’Connor writes a nice essay about hunting with her dog and falcon over Thanksgiving — and the places she’s drawn to:
These places I’ve made my own — paying in tears, sweat and blood. Hunting with a raptor is frightening, punctuated by a small peregrine’s near death experiences, illuminated by surprise successes and heartbreaking in its losses. In short it is life. And these places belong to me because I have lived on them.
Read the (relatively short) essay here.
Face it – falconers live on a higher plane of existence than the rest of us.
Sully(Quote)
lovely prose…thanks for sharing
Mark(Quote)
I’m going to have an interview of Ms. O’Connor up on my other site soon. Make sure to point to it from here…
Tom Chandler(Quote)
Good stuff, Tom. Do you know “The Peregrine” by JA Baker, an English book of quite staggering, if slightly melancholy beauty about a man following a peregrine for several months about the Essex countryside? Quite lovely.
http://www.amazon.com/Peregrine-York-Review-Books-Classics/dp/1590171330/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1323720891&sr=8-1
Best wishes
Jolyon
Jolyon(Quote)
Don’t know anything about it, but I’ll add it to the list. Thanks.
Tom Chandler(Quote)