As long as we're discussing books here's my two cents:

*H is For Hawks* is a great read. But it is not a book about a goshawk so
much as it is a book about the loss of Helen Macdonald's father and the
sexual orientation of T. H. White, author of *The Sword in the Stone,
*who wrote
about his unsuccessfully attempt to raise a goshawk in the fifties.

*H is For Hawks* is no more a book about hawks than *The Art of Fielding* is
a book about baseball.

On Sat, Nov 11, 2017 at 5:42 PM, Donna Nelson <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:

> "H is for Hawk" is a terrific book, and a recent episode on Nature on PBS
> features Helen and her new goshawk Lupine.http://www.pbs.org/
> video/h-hawk-new-chapter-apxkhv/
>
> Sent from my iPad
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> On Nov 11, 2017, at 4:37 PM, Blake Allison <000000085d6e0931-dmarc-
> [log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> Some of you may have heard of Helen Macdonald's highly acclaimed 2015 book
> "H is for Hawk." After the death of her father, the grieving Macdonald
> withdrew from her social milieu and ended up keeping company with a goshawk
> named Mabel that she raised and trained to hunt. I have not read it but
> heard her interviewed a few weeks back by Terry Gross on "Fresh Air." It
> was a fascinating story.
>
> Blake Allison
> Lyme, NH 03768-3400
>
>
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> On Saturday, November 11, 2017, 11:54:03 AM EST, Mark Council <
> [log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> My brother keeps a flock of about 40 chickens in a small clearing in the
> woods at his place in Brookfield. He usually has only about two or three
> roosters who do a good job of standing guard for the ladies, and even
> though their crowing must sound like a dinner bell to whatever predators
> might be within earshot, there have been surprisingly few bloodbaths over
> the years. A mangey fox late this summer managed to take a couple; aerial
> assaults have been limited despite a nesting pair of goshawks a quarter of
> a mile or so away. The big female managed a kill summer before last,
> killing a free-ranging hen and frequenting the carcass on the ground for
> five consecutive days.
> Chickens generally aren’t known for their intelligence, but they do get
> the smarts about big birds flying over them pretty quickly. This spring, a
> returning turkey vulture took a fairly low flight over the pen, and at
> least one of the roosters issued the alarm and thirty some hens tried to
> make a hyper-hasty retreat through the tiny henhouse door at the same time.
> My brother says it was the best laugh has had in a long time-
> --
> It's not by chance that the dark center of human eye, the pupil, is
> actually an empty hole through which the world becomes known to us.
> Likewise, in a spiritual sense, the I is the empty center through which we
> see everything. It's revealing that such a threshold is called the pupil,
> for it is only when we are emptied of all noise and dreams of ego that we
> become truly teachable. -Mark Nepo
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