Peregrine O’Gormley grew up on 40 acres of woods and grazing land in the mountains of central New Mexico, where his father taught him to carefully observe his natural surroundings. His stomping grounds included the hills and valleys in the several square mile watershed surrounding their home, barbed wire fences, rattle snakes, gopher snakes, rabbits, coyotes and fox, myriad raptors and small birds, and the odd black bear, plus miles of free wandering piny…