diff --git a/hggit/git_handler.py b/hggit/git_handler.py
index 4db6c4e0ccd7a9f43afb811071113f9e4c82be82_aGdnaXQvZ2l0X2hhbmRsZXIucHk=..1ce24c836a38b753bc92178cec6d9ff08669f99b_aGdnaXQvZ2l0X2hhbmRsZXIucHk= 100644
--- a/hggit/git_handler.py
+++ b/hggit/git_handler.py
@@ -1123,15 +1123,9 @@
             return [(_filter_bm(bm), bm) for bm in bms]
 
     def local_heads(self):
-        try:
-            if getattr(bookmarks, 'parse', None):
-                bms = bookmarks.parse(self.repo)
-            else:
-                bms = self.repo._bookmarks
-            return dict([(filtered_bm, hex(bms[bm])) for
-                        filtered_bm, bm in self._filter_for_bookmarks(bms)])
-        except AttributeError: #pragma: no cover
-            return {}
+        bms = self.repo._bookmarks
+        return dict([(filtered_bm, hex(bms[bm])) for
+                     filtered_bm, bm in self._filter_for_bookmarks(bms)])
 
     def import_tags(self, refs):
         keys = refs.keys()