Table of Contents
Acknowledgments ix
Foreword Sy Montgomery Elizabeth Marshall Thomas xi
Prologue xv
Part 1 Owned by a Hawk
Chapter 1 A Different Way of Life 3
Chapter 2 I Begin 13
Chapter 3 Meeting Injun 19
Chapter 4 The Attack and the Mission 23
Chapter 5 Compatibility on Injun's Terms 31
Chapter 6 Goshawk in the Bedroom 37
Chapter 7 Injun on "Suffering Fools" 41
Chapter 8 Moving to the Right Place 45
Chapter 9 People in Kilts 49
Chapter 10 How High Should You Go? 53
Chapter 11 Thin Ice and Pheasants 63
Chapter 12 Hawkdogs 69
Chapter 13 Bird Years 79
Chapter 14 The Importance of Being Injun 89
Part 2 A Tale of Two Peregrines
Chapter 15 Tapped for a New Role 99
Chapter 16 Suspicious Characters 109
Chapter 17 Licensed! 113
Chapter 18 Meet a Bird Named N-Z 121
Chapter 19 The Dance Begins 125
Chapter 20 Can He Fly? 133
Chapter 21 Airborne 141
Chapter 22 Flying To Despair 153
Chapter 23 Only Optimists Need Apply 165
Part 3 A Life Filled with Raptors
Chapter 24 Bubba 171
Chapter 25 Contract Attorneys and Partnerships 177
Chapter 26 Summer Flights 181
Chapter 27 Moving Day for Falcons 187
Chapter 28 Cowan's Falcon "Nursery" 193
Chapter 29 Tabasco 199
Chapter 30 Mosby, the Gray Ghost 203
Chapter 31 Emma's Great Adventure 209
Chapter 32 Jazz 215
Chapter 33 Lightning in a Bottle 221
Chapter 34 Sidekick 227
Chapter 35 Winterizing Harris's Hawks 233
Chapter 36 Making In 237
Chapter 37 Crash 243
Chapter 38 Well-Groomed 249
Chapter 39 Scout 253
Chapter 40 Peregrine Spring 259
