Taiga the Rough-legged Hawk

Our new hawk, Taiga was a youngster and a car collision victim in the spring near Great Falls, a migrant from the tundra and taiga of the far north and now on our Teaching Team. A sweetie and bum wing but comfortable in her new surroundings.

Raptor Round-Up #63!

 I can't believe I could write three of these a year...now one big 8-page issue in November. Thanks Minuteman Press of Missoula! Just mailed 100, another 100 and thanks Raptor Backers everywhere.            https://www.raptorsoftherockies.org/main.asp?id=newsletter

Contrasty

Quite the evening sky. Newsletters out in a week, maybe sooner, printing at Minuteman Press. 350 copies in living color!

Little Billie Today

Photo for the new Raptor Round-Up!

 

In Our New Raptor Round-Up Newsletter

First of November, 8 pages and this in there:

Radius Rules!

Downtown, Missoula, 124 N Higgins Ave. I have two etchings, Barred Portrait and Max the Eagle.

 

Playtime

At first I thought a pair of adult red-tails were fighting over a snake, then the male left the scene. It was a stick that she dropped and caught, then finally discarded and flew away. HA!

Last of the Flowers

I have been stashing all the flowers under the roof at night and hanging them again each morning. Hard frost and End of Flower Season, and thanks to Nancy Brown of Brown's Greenhouse in Florence! The best florals possible.

Eagles

 Saw them in the same spot yesterday so went back to the house for the camera and muck boots, this from the river.

Not Another Sunrise Shot!

 

Rose To the Rescue

We had a little change of plans yesterday regarding our mouse delivery from our favorite lab in Great Falls. They have supplied the vast majority of our rodents for 35 years, and sometimes we have to get creative in getting them over the continental divide to Missoula. Dr. Moses was going to drop them off at the university at 8 or 9 pm, so how to keep them cool... Best pal Rose at the lab taped them up in 3 styrofoam coolers with ice and dry ice and I had them in the car early this morning (pre-Homecoming Parade!) now all sorted and in our freezer. Check out her big label, and the bowl of mouse traps I set every night in the garage. All set for a bit, whew a close one. 

Shade Cloth Is Down

Down comes the shade cloth in the eagle building all folded up now, on goes the heat for the Aplomado Falcon Sonora. Coming soon...winter.

 

New Etching

Hot off the printing press! "Spotted Sandpiper" drypoint etching with gouache and colored pencils on gold printing ink so it glows in real life. 11" x 9"  

Happy Monday!