Womankind

The art of falconry

Hiding out of sight, Rob Palmer is frozen still. He is less than 100 feet from the falcon’s nest site. He waits for an hour, and then several more - sometimes as long as eight hours in a stretch, his eyes keen on the site. Palmer knows that once darkness falls, he must return to his hotel

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