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.

Birdwatch: Rare visitor makes exciting return

Tropical birds blown off course to sub-Antarctic Macquarie Island after east coast storms

Breeding Little Gulls confirmed for the first time

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:

• Reviewing The Minnesota Iceman Saga (see picture above)

From CFZ-USA:

• SLEEPING TREES?
• HILLARY CLINTON AND UFO FILES
• KENTUCKY BIGFOOT SIGHTING
• SASQUATCH ENCOUNTERS
• WHAT ARE FLYING RODS?
• IS THIS NEW NESSIE PHOTOGRAPH?
• HORNED MONSTER OF NORTH CAROLINA
• ON THIS DAY IN WEIRD
• LAKE MONSTERS OF CANADA
• BEAR WITH MANY LEGS
• NEW BOOK ON MINNESOTA ICEMAN
• BIGFOOT ON FARM
• WHAT'S IN THE PHOTOGRAPH?
• HUMANOID IN COTE D'IVOIRE/IVORY COAST
• WINGED HUMANOID REPORTED
• BLACK-EYED ADULT
• STRANGE ENCOUNTER IN NORTH DAKOTA
• ON THIS DAY IN WEIRD
• BEWARE OF THE REBOB
• WHO WAS THE GURNING MAN?
• WHEN WERE DOGS FIRST DOMESTICATED?
• BIGFOOT IN MINNESOTA
• ALLEGED BIGFOOT COVERUP
• COCKATRICE OF RENWICK
• CORRIE CREATURE
• NORDIC ALIENS IN RUSSIA?
• WHO REPORTED BIGFOOT?
• ON THIS DAY IN WEIRD
• AFRICAN WHITE APEMAN
• HUMAN OR HUMANOID?
• BIGFOOT AND CONSPIRACY
• FIRST MEN IN BLACK?
• FAIRY ABDUCTION IN IRELAND
• BRAIN-SUCKING OCTOPUS
• BIZARRE CREATURE
• REPTILIAN ABDUCTION
• ON THIS DAY IN WEIRD

TODAY'S BIG CAT NEWS

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 that 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.


REDLANDS: Big cat may have been big raccoon

Press-Enterprise

A police statement Sunday, which was shared widely on social media, indicated the department had received several reports of a large cat in south Redlands (California).

THE GONZO BLOG DOO-DAH MAN IS UP NORTH

The Gonzo Daily - Friday/Saturday

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

Graham here again, and feeling very tired after watching yesterday's Brexit referendum results coverage through the night. 

A result was 'called' by the television companies soon after the 4:30am mark, and I settled down to try and get some sleep a while afterwards... only to be thoroughly woken up a few hours later by the dogs barking.

Postman alert! - Anyway, here (and slightly later than planned) are today's updates:

Gordon Giltrap Interview and a little jam

http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2016/06/gordon-giltrap-interview-and-little-jam.html

Barbara Dickson Life Story Interview - Caravan, tour, album

http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2016/06/barbara-dickson-life-story-interview_24.html

JON ANDERSON interview, Miami, 2013

http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2016/06/jon-anderson-interview-miami-2013.html

THE GONZO TRACK OF THE DAY: Judge Dread - Big Six

http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2016/06/the-gonzo-track-of-day-judge-dread-big.html

THOM THE WORLD POET: The Daily Poem

http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2016/06/thom-world-poet-daily-poem_24.html

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And now I am on the want again. It is time, once again, for me to remind you all about this year's Weird Weekend featuring our very own Steve Ignorant, sponsored by our very own Erik Norlander, compèred by me and the return of  Nuneaton's Mr Entertainment, Barry Tadcaster with his pal Orang Pendek, and featuring a whole cornucopia of high strangeness and cerebral silliness. It would make me very happy if I could sell some more tickets..

find out all about the Weird Weekend

http://www.weirdweekend.org

buy tickets to the Weird Weekend:

http://tinyurl.com/jnke

Gonzo Magazine #187-8

http://www.gonzoweekly.com/

Last weekend and this coming one is covered by the bumper issue - The Gonzo Summer Special with a mixture of old and new stuff for your delight and amazement! We interview Bridget Wishart and Ian Jones from Karnataka, Alan goes to see Neil Young, Erik Norlander's new album, John B-G goes on a pilgrimage to the West Coast of America, Doug

eulogises Security Project, Orrin talks about German psychedelic folk, we send the legendary John Hughes to a desert island, Jon reviews a book by and about Frederick Forsyth and burbles on about British comics, we interview Karnataka about a very special concert, while Corinna talks about shopping with mother. Just another day chez Gonzo.

And there  are radio shows from Strange Fruit, and Mack Maloney, and Friday Night Progressive. We also have columns from all sorts of folk including Roy Weard, Mr Biffo, Neil Nixon and the irrepressible Corinna. There is also a collection of more news, reviews, views, interviews and pademelons outside zoos(OK, nothing to do with small marsupials who have escaped from captivity, but I got carried away with things that rhymed with OOOOS) than you can shake a stick at. And the best part is IT's ABSOLUTELY FREE!!!

This issue features:

Karnataka, Gorillaz, Erik Norlander, Lana Lane, Ringo Starr, All-Starrs,Cliff Richard, Morrissey, Strange Fruit, Friday Night Progressive, Mack Maloney's Mystery Hour,Helen Joanne "Jo" Cox, Henry Campbell Liken McCullough, Lincoln Wayne "Chips" Moman, Robert Allen "Bobby" Curtola, CM, Tom Leppard, Rick Wakeman, Arthur Brown's Kingdom Come, Brand X, Third Ear Band, Captain Beefheart, Jim Jones, Gram Parsons, Mick Abrahams, Barbara Dickson, Bridget Wishart, Spirits Burning, Peter Gabriel, Alan Dearling, Neil Young, John Brodie-Good, Paul Kantner, The Jungle Book, Roy Weard, Orrin Hare, Krautfolk, Mr Biffo, Xtul, Hawkwind, John Hughes,Frederick Forsyth, Marc Bolan, Elvis, Mitch Mitchell, Robert Johnson, Ginger Spice, Neil Nixon, Robert Calvert

                                                                                   

Read the previous few issues of Gonzo Weekly:

Issue 186 (Beatles)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo185.html

Issue 185 (Judge Smith)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo185.html

Issue 184 (Mick Abrahams)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo184.html

Issue 183 (Daevid Allen)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo183.html

Issue 182 (Wally)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo182.html

Issue 181 (Beatles)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo181.html

Issue 180 (Beltane)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo180.html

Issue 179 (Gregg Kofi Brown)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo179.html

Issue 178 (Viv Stanshall)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo177.html

Issue 177 (David Gilmour)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo176.html

Issue 176 (Joey Molland and The Raz Band)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo176.html

Issue 175 (Larry Sanders)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo175.html

Issue 174 (Keith Emerson)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo174.html

Issue 173 (Pink Fairies action figures)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo173.html

Issue 172 (4th Eden)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo172.html

Issue 171 (Keith Levene)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo171.html

Issue 170 (Wildman Fischer)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo170.html

Issue 169 (Wildman Fischer)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo169.html

Issue 168 (Wakeman/Bowie)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo168.html

Issue 167 (Paul Kantner)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo167.html

Issue 166 (Spirits Burning)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo166.html

All issues from #70 can be downloaded at www.gonzoweekly.com if you prefer. If you have problems downloading, just email me and I will add you to the Gonzo Weekly dropbox. The first 69 issues are archived there as well. Information is power chaps, we have to share it!

You can download the magazine in pdf form HERE:

http://www.gonzoweekly.com/pdf/

SPECIAL NOTICE: If you, too, want to unleash the power of your inner rock journalist, and want to join a rapidly growing band of likewise minded weirdos please email me at jon@eclipse.co.uk The more the merrier really.

* 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.co.uk

* 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 56 who - together with an infantile orange cat named after a song by Frank Zappa, and two small kittens, one totally coincidentally named after one of the Manson Family, purely because she squeaks, 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 infantile orange cat, and the adventurous kittens?

NESSIENEWS (Caveat Lector)

Weekend in the Wilds Big Foot Hunt, Calling Contest

Saturday, July 2, Cameron County hunters (Pennsylvania) will take to the trails and look for Big Foot. New this year will be a Big Foot calling contest. The annual Big Foot Hunt benefits Mountaineer Search & Rescue.. 

NEWS FROM NOWHERE: Friday / Saturday

ON THIS DAY IN 1997 - The U.S. Air Force released a report optimistically entitled "The Roswell Report: Case Closed" that dismissed the claims that an alien spacecraft had crashed in Roswell, New Mexico, fifty years previously. 

And now some more recent news from the CFZ Newsdesk

Zimbabwe set to sell its wildlife as drought dries up water holes and grass

Artists, scientists urge North America to save Monarch butterfly

'Biblical' moth influx threatens to devastate crops

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)