ANDREW MAY: Words from the Wild Frontier

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

From Nick Redfern's World of Whatever:

• Beware of the Pecking Dead... — Zombie-like behaviour of Moscow's pigeons...

From CFZ Canada:

• Just for Fun — Sasquatch spotted in public information videos...

TODAY'S BIG CAT NEWS ROUNDUP

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 are 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.

Big Cat sightings on Exmoor (Documentary)

The 'Beast of Trowbridge'? Pensioners spy creature..

Panther Spotted in Manchester!

Mystery big cat is spotted in Shropshire again

CFZ CANADA: Just for fun

First, this is not Canadian.  But it is from Olympia, Washington, which is about 110 miles from the British Columbia border.  Second, it's not by any stretch a reasonable representation of the big hair biped we all know and love.  But it is cute, and it's for a decent cause.
The videos below are to promote Washington State's Department of Natural Resources "Discover Pass".  This special permit is needed by everyone who wants to visit the state parks; and by everyone, we mean EVERYone.

Read on...

FORTEAN BIRD NEWS FROM THE WATCHER OF THE SKIES

In an article for the first edition of Cryptozoology Bernard Heuvelmans wrote that cryptozoology is the study of 'unexpected animals' and following on from that perfectly reasonable assertion, it seems to us that whereas the study of out-of-place birds may not have the glamour of the hunt for bigfoot or lake monsters, it is still a perfectly valid area for the Fortean zoologist to be interested in. So after about six months of regular postings on the main bloggo Corinna took the plunge and started a 'Watcher of the Skies' blog of her own as part of the CFZ Bloggo Network.

• • Terror Bird's Beak Was Worse Than Its Bite: 'Terro...
  •      Arunachal Pradesh: First bird festival to be held ...
  •      Learning How to Migrate: Young Whoopers Stay the C...
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DALE DRINNON: Wild woman and marine otter, longnecks, Frontiers of Anthropology, Benny's blogs

New at the Frontiers of Zoology:

http://frontiersofzoology.blogspot.com/2013/09/wild-woman-and-master-otter-1507.html

http://frontiersofzoology.blogspot.com/2013/09/longneck-map-and-reconstruction-update.html

New at the Frontiers of Anthropology:

http://frontiers-of-anthropology.blogspot.com/2013/09/mushroom-mythology-3.html

New at Benny's Blog for Thelma Todd:

http://benny-drinnon.blogspot.com/2013/09/thelma-todds-contract-with-hal-roach.html

New at Benny's Other Blog, The Ominous Octopus Omnibus:

http://bennypdrinnon.blogspot.com/2013/09/batwomans-first-adventure.html

Best Wishes, Dale D.

THE GONZO BLOG DOO-DAH MAN DOES THINGS OF GREAT IMPORTANCE

I am not very well today - more of the usual. I was fine yesterday, but after my afternoon nap I felt a bit dodgy, and then - yesterday evening - the full weight of my bipolar hit me like an oncoming rhinoceros. I dealt with it in the usual manner, and today - whilst I can still function a bit - I am retreating into my nest as soon as I possibly can. Many apologies to anyone who wanted anything from me today, it's just not gonna happen. Normal service will be restored as soon as possible (honest)...

Another visit to our old friend Thom the World Poet.
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/09/thom-world-poet-daily-poem_2.html

Today's Track of the Day is by Galahad
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/09/the-gonzo-track-of-day-galahad.html

A treat for Steve Hackett fans
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/09/the-chop-house-check-out-steve-hackett.html

Gordon Giltrap in a Bath music shop
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/09/guitarist-gordon-giltrap-lines-up-date.html

Russell Hunter in the Guardian
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/09/russell-hunter-writes-in-guardian.html

Belgian Steve Hillage review
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/09/belgian-steve-hillage-review.html

*  The Gonzo Daily is a two way process. If you have any news or want to write for us, please contact me at  jon@eclipse.co.uk. If you are an artist and want to showcase your work, or even just say hello please write to me at gonzo@cfz.org.uk. Please copy, paste and spread the word about this magazine as widely as possible. We need people to read us in order to grow, and as soon as it is viable we shall be invading more traditional magaziney areas. Join in the fun, spread the word, and maybe if we all chant loud enough we CAN stop it raining. See you tomorrow...

*  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 same team also do a weekly newsletter called - imaginatively - The Gonzo Weekly. Find out about it at this link: http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2012/11/all-gonzo-news-wots-fit-to-print.html

* We should probably mention here, that some of our posts are links to things we have found on the internet that we think are of interest. We are not responsible for spelling or factual errors in other people's websites. Honest guv!

*  Jon Downes, the Editor of all these ventures (and several others) is an old hippy of 54 who - together with his orange cat (who is currently on sick leave in Staffordshire) and two very small kittens (one of whom is also orange) puts it all together from a converted potato shed in a tumbledown cottage deep in rural Devon which he shares with various fish, and sometimes a small Indian frog. He is ably assisted by his lovely wife Corinna, his bulldog/boxer Prudence, his elderly mother-in-law, and a motley collection of social malcontents. Plus.. did we mention the orange cat?

KARL SHUKER: Two Sea Monsters For the Price of One!

Karl Shuker makes two different sea monsters out of one dead shark! Magic? No, just decomposition!


Read on...

OLL LEWIS: Yesterday's News Today

Yesterday’s News Today

http://cryptozoologynews.blogspot.com/

On this day in 1666 the great fire of London started in a Bakers in Pudding Lane. The fire destroyed most of the old city and led to much of it being rebuilt to the plans of Christopher Wren.

And now the news:

Thresher shark seen leaping from sea off Pembrokes...

Black Rhino Bites Woman's Finger At Denver Zoo

350-Pound Marlin Jumps Onto Fishing Boat In Domini...

Central Park Zoo’s last remaining polar bear, Gus,...

Experts suggest changes for zoo’s elephants

Blocking Molecular Pathway Reverses Pulmonary Hype...

Albino alligator gets acupuncture in Brazil

Fire:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NOErZuzZpS8