Steve Hoddy, who has been featured on Letterman, Leno and Good Morning America, was in Busch last weekend, just passing through. Hoddy decided when he was 12 he couldn’t work in an office, so he started collecting rescue birds. For 35 years he’s been driving around the country teaching K-16 students about birds of prey. His falcon, Renegade, has been his sidekick for 23 years. The birds ride in cages in the covered bed of Hoddy’s Ford 1-ton and love to listen to the blues. He has pigeons, a Harris hawk, great-horned owl, black and turkey vultures, falcon and this Andean condor. Go to earthquest.org for more info.
Photo by Eric Studer, Retreat at Sky Ridge