Monday, February 20, 2012

JON'S JOURNAL: Identify these waders

Corinna, Prudence and I went to Northam Burrows again yesterday, and we saw three species of bird for the first time this year.

One was a lapwing (V. vanellus), which have always been favourite birds of mine.

The other two were waders, and before you watch this short film that I put together this evening, please note that I am not claiming that these are spectacularly rare or of any cryptozoological importance whatsoever, but merely that I would like some help in identifying them. I am terribly rusty on my British birds, and although when I was a boy (and my grandmother, who was a keen bird watcher was alive) I knew them all, I am far less certain on my identifications nowadays.


ANDREW MAY: Words from the Wild Frontier

News and stories from the remoter fringes of the CFZ blogosphere...

From CFZ Australia:
From CFZ Canada:
  • Caddy Debunked? — Skeptics are dismissive of Vancouver’s Cadborosaurus...

CFZ CANADA: Caddy Debunked

Most Canadians (and Cryptogeeks worldwide) are familiar withVancouver’s Cadborosaurus. It was named after Cadboro Bay on the southern tip of Vancouver Island. A classic sea serpent, Caddy is said to havea horse-like head, a flowing mane on a long curved neck, and a long thin snake-ish body that reveals several loops above the surf.

Read on...

DALE DRINNON: Winged Reptoids and more Possible Pterosaur sightings/Yetis and Giant Orangutans/EndPleistocene cataclysm

New on the Frontiers of Zoology, an article about Winged Reptoids and more Possible Pterosaur sightings:
http://frontiersofzoology.blogspot.com/2012/02/winged-reptoids-and-more-flying.html

And a followup on Yetis and Giant Orangutans (Reprints Darren Naish on the subject):
http://frontiersofzoology.blogspot.com/2012/02/more-on-yetis-and-giant-orangutans.html

New on the Frontiers of Anthropology, part of an ongoing series about the EndPleistocene cataclysm:
http://frontiers-of-anthropology.blogspot.com/2012/02/pleistocene-nonconformity-global.html