35. Heath Garner on Arkansas Snipe Hawking

After talking to me about trapping of passage peregrine in Arkansas (Episode 24), Heath Garner returns to the show to talk about snipe-hawking. To set the stage for the conversation, Heath reminds us of his falconry background, the group of falconers that typically focus on snipe in Arkansas, and some similarities and differences of snipe hawking in Arkansas compared to the U.K. and Ireland.We then turn our attention to the snipe themselves, and Heath tells us why the Mississippi Alluvi...