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1st December.
Today at work, when I arrived I started on feeding the axolotls, the caecilians and the cichlids, worms, but one cichlid still is not eating properly, we tried worms lettuce and water pennywort still no interest, we will keep watch over the next few days to see whether it starts to eat again. Then I cleaned the baby pigeon's old cage, I also weighed the tortoises there weight is still roughly the same, I fed the crow also and checked the other pigeon aviary. After I finished all that I cleaned a tank in the office and fed the fish in the living room.
Tuesday, December 02, 2014
FORTEAN BIRD NEWS FROM THE WATCHER OF THE SKIES
What has Corinna's column of fortean bird news got to do with Cryptozoology?
Well, everything actually!
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.
Well, everything actually!
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.
- Overrun with crows, desperate Yakima Co. town trie...
- Critically endangered bird sighted at Tansa sanctu...
- Good table manners could save greenfinch
BIGFOOT NEWS IN BRIEF:
Bigfoot Tree Knocks Captured on Video in North Texas
Some
researchers speculate that bigfoot communicate at times by striking trees
with large limbs to produce a knocking sound. The following was ...
THE GONZO BLOG DOO-DAH MAN IS TARDY
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Last night I had problems with Acrobat. No I don't
mean girls in spangly tights, but the programme made by those jolly nice folks
at Adobe. I was up until gone 2:30 when I finally gave up and went to bed, and
as a result I overslept this morning, which as Jess and Danny were here at 12:00
raring to go, was a considerable issue. Bizarrely, I went legit a couple of
years ago. After using a pirated version of Acrobat 6 which never caused me any
problems for the best part of a decade, I bought a legitimate copy of Acrobat 9
which has been a pain in the arse ever since. I know that there are all sorts of
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THOM THE WORLD POET: The Daily Poem
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MICK FARREN on Watch Out Kids (1972)
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Mad Daevid Allen Interview 1975
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Yes' Steve Howe Guitar Lesson
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GONZO TRACK OF THE DAY: Crimson and Clover - Tommy James
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http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.co.uk/2014/12/thom-world-poet_2.html
MICK FARREN on Watch Out Kids (1972)
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.co.uk/2014/12/mick-farren-on-watch-out-kids-1972.html
Mad Daevid Allen Interview 1975
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.co.uk/2014/12/mad-daevid-allen-interview-1975.html
Yes' Steve Howe Guitar Lesson
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.co.uk/2014/12/yes-steve-howe-guitar-lesson.html
GONZO TRACK OF THE DAY: Crimson and Clover - Tommy James
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.co.uk/2014/12/gonzo-track-of-day-crimson-and-clover.html
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album, and legendary record producer David Mackay about his new charity single.
Doug Harr goes to see Daniel Lanois (with exclusive piccies) and Mark Murdock
runs into Terry Bozzio. And we send Don Falcone to a desert island. Xtul are
back in the deep woods, and there are also new shows from the multi-talented
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the titular submarine dwellers are back with another episode of Sub Reality
Sandwich. There is also a collection of more news, reviews, views, interviews
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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:
From Nick Redfern's World of Whatever:
- The Babes of Bigfoot! — A Bigfoot-themed charity calendar for 2015...
- ANCIENT INDIA HAD FLYING MACHINES CLAIMS HISTORIAN...
- WILDMAN OF CROATIA (see image above)
- GARGOYLE-LIKE CREATURE
- BEACHCOMBER ON HISTORY AND EDUCATION
- UFO IN ARKANSAS
- UFO EVIDENCE
- ON THIS DAY IN WEIRD
- VIDEO ON BEAST OF GEVAUDAN
- SEARCHING FOR BIGFOOT
- DECOMPOSED FOOT - IS IT SASQUATCH'S?
- WILL RENDELSHAM BE REINVESTIGATED?
- ON THIS DAY IN WEIRD
- STRANGE CREATURES
- WAS U.S. WARSHIP ATTACKED BY SEA MONSTER?
- CIA SCULPTURE WITH CODE
- PHILAE LANDING: CONSPIRACY?
- ON THIS DAY IN WEIRD
NEWS FROM NOWHERE - Tuesday/Wednesday
ON THIS DAY IN 1931 - Alka Seltzer was sold for the first time.
Population of potoroo once thought extinct passes ...
Nepal's killing fields: FIVE THOUSAND buffalo lie ...
Leopards live closer to people than previously tho...
New horned dinosaur species identified from museum...
No croaking: New frog species groans, coughs
Chinese zoos plundering Zimbabwe’s wildlife
Galápagos Islands wildlife threatened by battle be...
Mass extinction led to many new species of bony fi...
AND TO WHISTLE WHILE YOU WORK... (Music that may have some relevance to items also on this page, or may just reflect my mood on the day)