Tag: Birds of prey
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Horse racing, Camp Beagle, factory farming and pet food, the shooting industry, a little retail therapy and a bird of prey centre, Naked Paper, AI and communicating with animals
I liked the gentle contrast between the Cloud Grass stems and the pub table in the photo above. Usually I have just one post in draft at a time but right now I have four and am feeling slightly overwhelmed. As I keep saying, the Lateral podcast sends me off on tangents. Perhaps I should…
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Falcons and falconry
This image of the Peregrine Falcon (Falco pergerinus), famously the fastest animal on the planet, is taken from John Gould’s magnificent The Birds of Great Britain, published in twenty-five parts, usually sumptuously bound in five folio volumes, between 1862 and 1873. Copies on the market today are priced between £60,000 and over £200,000. The copy…