WATCHER OF THE SKIES: Today's news

After about six months of regular postings on the main bloggo, Corinna has taken the plunge and started a 'Watcher of the Skies' blog of her own as part of the CFZ Bloggo Network.

"There is nothing in which the birds differ more from man than the way in which they can build and yet leave a landscape as it was before." - Robert Lynd

And so to the latest collection:

Cruelty of bird sanctuary owner caught kicking and...

• Seagull steals camera - bird's eye view
• Bird's nest farmers seek PM's help
• State bird nearing extinction
• Early birds Goa's latest migrants
• Rare birds abound in Brazil's Acre state
• Rare penguins star in show
• Loch Garten osprey makes record breaking migration...
• Crows can 'reason' about causes, a recent study fi...

LINK: Government accidentally includes ‘poor people’ in Badger cull licence

The government today made it legal for farmers to shoot poor people, insisting it was a mere oversight which they will correct just as soon as they have time.

The licence gives farmers permission to shoot up to 70% of poor people in certain designated areas referred to in the licence as ‘Labour strongholds’.

Defra Minister David Heath said: “Our priority has always been to ensure that any culling of poor people is carried out in a safe, humane and effective way.”

“Did I say poor people again? I mean badgers, obviously.”

“But we simply had to had to do something, they’re multiplying in rural areas, a nuisance to landowners and they carry disease – and the badgers aren’t much better.”

Badger cull

The cull has received criticism from people suddenly in the firing line of the nearest angry farmer, with many insisting there is little evidence culling actually works.

As one tory backbencher explained, “All you end up doing is shooting the weaker ones, making the herd stronger.”

“And trust me, no-one wants that. Imagine having a strong highly motivated herd of poor people running about the place – Heaven forbid.”

A Defra spokesperson addressed concerns, telling reporters, “The pilot will be run under strict conditions, and we’ll decide afterwards whether it is effective in controlling the spread of poor people, I mean bovine TB.”

Related posts:

1. Poor people and their ways ‘morally wrong’ says government minister
2. Government urges poor people to die younger
3. Poor people encouraged to just accept rich people are better than them
4. Government hands private investors opportunity to buy poor people
5. ‘Stop badger cull’ says scientist shaped like wobbly tower of badgers

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DALE DRINNON: Cedar and Willow

New link on Cedar and Willow, which is an actual scientific theory and a notice I intend to incorporate the principle into the Captain Patti segments:

http://cedar-and-willow.blogspot.com/2012/09/warp-drive-may-be-more-feasible-than.html

HAUNTED SKIES: Sun (The) 29.5.68.

http://forteanzoology.blogspot.com/2012/09/haunted-skies-sun-29568.html

BIG CAT NEWS ROUND UP

The hunt for British Big Cats attracts far more newspaper-column inches than any other cryptozoological subject. There are so many of them now that we feel that they should be archived by us in some way, so we should have a go at publishing a regular round-up of the stories as they come in. In September 2012, Emma Osborne decided that the Mystery Cat Study Group really deserved a blog of its own within the CFZ Blog Network.

Here is the latest tranche of news...

SIGHTINGS: Two more cougar sightings on North Shor...

NEWSLINK: Big cat research lacking: Townsend

I'M YER GONZO BLOG DOO-DAH MAN

Well boys and girls, I am running stupidly late today. HoweverPublish Post, we have an entertaining afternoon planned with the delightful Ms H. We shall be going to Barnstaple museum and a shop which sells diabetic chocolate. Who could ask for anything more? Not me...

We start off with our daily visit to the singular universe of Thom the World Poet...
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2012/09/thom-world-poet-daily-poem_18.html

Another communique for Michael Des Barres. The journey continues, and the spirit marches on and on...
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2012/09/a-communique-from-michael-des-barres_18.html

Another Gonzo exclusive, part two of our major interview with the lovely Annie Haslam of Renaissance...
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2012/09/exclusive-annie-haslam-of-renaissance_19.html

A homage to a great writer and his raven...
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2012/09/courtesy-of-michael-newton-and-my.html

The first HRH Prog Festival has been announced...
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2012/09/hrh-prog-festival.html

I am very much looking forward to seeing Jefferson Starship next month. Here is a taster...
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2012/09/jefferson-starship-live-review.html

The multi talented Erik Norlander has got another extraordinary review...
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2012/09/link-erik-norlander-review_19.html

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The Gonzo Daily is - as the name implies - a daily online magazine (mostly) about artists connected to the Gonzo Multimedia group of companies. But it also has other stuff as and when the editor feels like it. The Editor is an old hippy of 53 who - together with his orange cat - puts it all together from a converted potato shed in a tumbledown cottage deep in rural Devon. He is ably assisted by his lovely wife Corinna, his bulldog/boxer Prudence, and a motley collection of social malcontents. Plus.. did we mention the orange cat?

OLL LEWIS: Yesterday's News Today

http://cryptozoologynews.blogspot.com/

On this day in 1991 the mummified body of Otzi was found in the Alps. Allegedly the body is cursed too, but I'm sure the thousands of people that file past it in it's little museum who apparently don't die violently are probably proof that it's about as cursed as the pickled soft shell turtle in the CFZ museum.

And now the news:

Giant mutant slugs from El: Spanish beasts invade ...

Giant catfish empty rivers, turn cannibal

Ryanair plane disinfected after insect bite compla...

Farmer arrested for killing king cobra

Cat survives 1,000 mile trip via airplane, in suit...

Shark attacks man in Cocoa Beach

Human Muscle, Regrown on Animal Scaffolding

A Trail of Tears: Big Cat Ownership

Manmade Bat Cave Designed To Prevent White-Nose Sy...

Are Our Bones Well Designed? Insects and Crabs Hav...

Amazing Photos Chronicle Staggering Diversity of B...

Rare wildlife caught on camera in Borneo wildlife ...

Cook Islands unveils world's largest marine park

This is what happens when you find a stranger in the Alps!!! (you've got to love 'edited for language versions of classic films) :

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IQUdJ6FdUQ0

WATCHER OF THE SKIES: Today's news

After about six months of regular postings on the main bloggo, Corinna has taken the plunge and started a 'Watcher of the Skies' blog of her own as part of the CFZ Bloggo Network.

Did you know that the longest recorded flight of a chicken is purported to be 13 seconds?

And here are the stories from yesterday:


Mentor woman reunited with pet bird (with video)

Foul-Mouthed Fowl

14 more whooping cranes to join flock in La.

'Bird-Apartment' In Japan Now Open Above Komoro Ci...

Spectacular migration over Malta

Rare birds spotted at La Mesa Ecopark

Thousands of birds stop in Northern State smokesta...

KARL SHUKER ON SKY BEASTS

http://karlshuker.blogspot.co.uk/2012/09/more-sky-beasts-some-hitherto.html