Green Lake Public Library (Caestecker)

Peregrine spring, a master falconer's extraordinary life with birds of prey, Nancy Cowan ; foreword by Sy Montgomery and Elizabeth Marshall Thomas

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non fiction

Peregrine spring

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Nancy Cowan ; foreword by Sy Montgomery and Elizabeth Marshall Thomas

a master falconer's extraordinary life with birds of prey

"Nancy Cowan's memoir of her thirty years living intimately with raptors, gives us a new perspective on the relationship between humans and the natural world. Cowan shares her experiences running a world-famous falconry school, and the lessons she's learned from her birds. From retrieving her falcon from the local police "lock up," to finding her husband in bed with a gyrfalcon, to a heart-breaking race to save her young peregrine from attack by a wild hawk, Cowan's life is a constant, ever-changing adventure. Cowan's birds have immersed her so much into their world that she has found herself courted by a Goshawk and bossed about by a Harris' Hawk. The book carries her readers along, so they, too, meet hawks and falcons in ways they never imagined possible." -- Publisher's description

Part one: Owned by a hawk. A different way of life ; I begin ; Meeting Injun ; The attack and the mission ; Compatibility on Injun's terms ; Goshawk in the bedroom ; Injun on "suffering fools" ; Moving to the right place ; People in kilts ; How high should you go? ; Thin ice and pheasants ; Hawkdogs ; Bird years ; The importance of being Injun -- Part two: A tale of two peregrines. Tapped for a new role ; Suspicious characters ; Licensed! ; Meet a bird named N-Z ; The dance begins ; Can he fly? ; Airborne ; Flying to despair ; Only optimists need apply -- Part three: A life filled with raptors. Bubba ; Contract attorneys and partnerships ; Summer flights ; Moving day for falcons ; Cowan's falcon "nursery" ; Tabasco ; Mosby, the gray ghost ; Emma's great adventure ; Jazz ; Lightning in a bottle ; Sidekick ; Winterizing Harris's hawks ; Making in ; Crash ; Well-groomed ; Scout ; Peregrine spring