FORTEAN BIRD NEWS FROM THE WATCHER OF THE SKIES

What has Corinna's column of fortean bird news got to do with Cryptozoology?

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. 

• Hunter becomes hunted: Video shows fish catching b...
• Bird Fingers: Understanding Evolution Of Wings In ...
• Tiny tag reveals record-breaking bird migration

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. 

The worldwide mystery cat phenomenon (or group of phenomena, if we are to be more accurate) is not JUST about cryptozoology. At its most basic level it is about the relationship between our species and various species of larger cat. That is why sometimes you will read stories here which appear to have nothing to do with cryptozoology but have everything to do with human/big cat interaction. As committed Forteans, we believe that until we understand the nature of these interactions, we have no hope of understanding the truth that we are seeking. 

USA SIGHTINGS: Large Mountain Lion tracks discover...

NEWSLINK: Big plans could bring small wild cat bac...

NEWSLINK: Farewell Tribute to World's Oldest Tiger...

UK SIGHTINGS: Panthers in Penryn and lions at Long...

NEWSLINK: 3 Threats to Big Cats Today and What You...

UK SIGHTINGS: 'Tiger' among big cat reports to Dev...

THE BIGFOOT FORUMS BLOG: NEW Stories and NEW Ideas!!

Greetings from the 2014 Bigfoot Forums Blog site! This year we will attempt to bring new ideas and I personally would like for a participation from the members here on the BFF. Please feel free to send me articles of interest as well as suggestions you would like to see in the blog.

Read on...

THE GONZO BLOG DOO-DAH MAN HAS HAD ENOUGH OF BT

Another one of "those" days. Saskia the intern is off sick. Graham has knackered the front wheel of his car. And we still have no internet. On the plus side, Shoshy (my stepdaughter) and Gavin (my son-in-law) arrived late last night, belated Christmas presents were exchanged, and a lovely and emotionally charged evening took place.

THE GONZO TRACK OF THE DAY: Joey Molland, Mark Hudson...
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2014/01/the-gonzo-track-of-day-joey-molland_14.html

THOM THE WORLD POET: The Daily Poem
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2014/01/thom-world-poet-daily-poem_14.html

Hawkwind's Bluebird show has been canceled. Consol...
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2014/01/hawkwinds-bluebird-show-has-been.htmlhttp://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2014/01/hawkwinds-bluebird-show-has-been.html

STEVE HILLAGE IN MANCHESTER
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2014/01/steve-hillage-in-manchester.html

YES Legend Jon Anderson's Debut Solo Album 'Olias ...
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2014/01/yes-legend-jon-andersons-debut-solo.html

JOEY MOLLAND: RTM US review
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2014/01/joey-molland-rtm-us-review_14.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: www.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?

OLL LEWIS: Yesterday's News Today

http://cryptozoologynews.blogspot.com/

On this day in 1967 the actress Emily Watson was born. Watson Stared in the films Red Dragon, The Corpse Bride and The Water Horse: Legend of the Deep.

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Badger cull figures 'counted unfairly'

European Wolf Population

The trailer for The Corpse Bride:

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