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.

Farmers to help with habitats

East Devon District Council holds 'seagull summit'...

Gamekeepers plan wading bird action

Ganaraska Forest logging during bird nesting seaso...

CFZ "PEOPLE": Happy Birthday Pru (8 Today)

CRYPTOLINK: Bigfoot society shares local sightings

A word about cryptolinks: we are not responsible for the content of cryptolinks, which are merely links to outside articles that we think are interesting (sometimes for the wrong reasons), usually posted up without any comment whatsoever from me. 

WARREN The mysterious creature that has been in the news for years has apparently been seen in Ohio, which is among the top five states for the most sightings reported according to Doug Waller of the Southeastern Ohio Society for Bigfoot Investigations.

Waller and others were the recent speakers at the program "In Search of Bigfoot" held at the Warren-Trumbull County Public Library.

"There is great interest in Bigfoot across the state of Ohio. The word Bigfoot is no longer taboo. It is a name that can be brought into the open,'' Waller said, noting the television shows such as ''Finding Bigfoot'' have changed the views of Bigfoot from being silly to being taken more seriously.

Waller said he became interested in Bigfoot in the 1970s and 1980s

He said at public meetings held by the society, stories are shared by people who have seen the creature.

"These are the stories that I want to hear about the encounters and sightings," he said, noting he takes the stories from people and writes the information down.

Read on...

DALE DRINNON: Sasquatch illustration, Frontiers of Anthropology, Benny's Blogs, Cedar & Willow

New at the Frontiers of Anthropology:

http://frontiers-of-anthropology.blogspot.com/2013/11/guest-blogger-jayasree-is-vedic.html

New at the Frontiers of Zoology:http://frontiersofzoology.blogspot.com/2013/10/pnw-sasquatch-illustration-from-indiana.html

New at Cedar and Willow:http://cedar-and-willow.blogspot.com/2013/11/blake-family.html

New at Benny's Blog for Thelma Todd:

http://benny-drinnon.blogspot.com/2013/11/speak-easily-photos.html

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

http://bennypdrinnon.blogspot.com/2013/11/toni-gayle-case-of-poison-ring.html

Best Wishes, Dale D.

TODAY'S BIG CAT 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 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.

• U.S.A SIGHTINGS: Mystery Animal Seen Lurking In Bl...
• UK SIGHTING: More sightings are made of Loughborou...
• UK SIGHTING-Sighting of mysterious 'big cat' in Ta...
• VIDEO: In Search of Black Leopard
• PUMA KITTENS ARRIVE AT EXMOOR ZOO
• FEATURELINK: Great Cats of the World
• UK SIGHTINGS: Eleven big cat sightings reported to...
• NEWSLINK: Russia - The Snare for tiger
• ARCHIVE UK SIGHTINGS: OTHER BIG CAT SIGHTINGS

THE GONZO BLOG DOO-DAH MAN HAS HIS HAT ON, HIP HIP HIP HOORAY

The Gonzo Daily - Sunday

http://www.gonzomultimedia.co.uk/about.html

As it has been much of the week
my Internet is up the creek
non existent or painfully slow
a British Telecom tale of woe

But the Gonzo Blogs still make it through
rock and roll stuff from me to you
and just because it amuses me
on Sundays I do it in poetry

Forget the Beatles and the Rolling Stones
our track of the day is from Percy Jones
who really is extremely ace
at playing melodic and tuneful bass
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/11/the-gonzo-track-of-day-mysteries-of.html

And now I post from me to you
a groovy Hawkwind interview
with their maestro David Brock
who is the master of space rock
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/11/hawkwind-take-off-to-play-space-rock.html

And now Thom the World Poet's here
we wouldn't forget him have no fear
he gets us through difficult times
with his homour, common sense, and words that rhyme
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/11/thom-world-poet-daily-poem.html

And now the Gonzo Weekly Magazine
has reached #50 issues seen
and I'm rather proud of what we've done
but we've only really just begun
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/11/gonzo-weekly-magazine-50.html

Casting melliflous musical spells
Frank Zappa's 200 Motels
was done live in London for the first time
here's a review, its really fine
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/11/200-motels-in-guardian.html

And lastly, something  that really works
Billy Sherwood and Captain Kirk's
interview posted here by me
about their groovy new CD
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/11/william-shatner-billy-sherwood.html

And that's enough from this particular freak,
the poems will be back next week

*  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. 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?

OLL LEWIS: Yesterday's News Today

Yesterday’s News Today
http://cryptozoologynews.blogspot.com/

On this day in 1954 the first Godzilla film was released.
And now the news:

Bonobos comfort each other

Animals in Marine Sanctuaries Not Immune to Human ...

Scent Marking The Mammalian Equivalent of Showy Pl...

FDA finds rodent hair and wood slivers in your imp...

Nov. 2 Is National Bison Day

Earthworms Trap Carbon, But Do They Influence Clim...

Prince of Wales to help save Australia's wildlife

Animal Personalities Are More Like Humans Than Fir...

The trailer for the 2014 version of Godzilla, which if the trailer is anything to go, by might well be a decent film (although I've been burned by that sort of assumption before, 'Be Kind, Re-Wind' for example) :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iAO7BIeMR-Y