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.

• Feathered Menace: Wild Turkeys Threatening Suburbi...
• Rescued Greater Adjutant Stork released in the wil...
• Falcon found at Dunbar

DALE DRINNON: Bigfoot, sasquatch, nahuelito, Benny's Blogs

New at the Frontiers of Zoology:

http://frontiersofzoology.blogspot.com/2013/11/bigfoot-evidence-bigfoot-in-oklahoma.html

http://frontiersofzoology.blogspot.com/2013/11/mount-rainier-sasquatch.html

http://frontiersofzoology.blogspot.com/2013/11/nahuelitovideo-1993photo-1988.html

This last one is giving me troubles and I may need to do repairs on it again

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

http://bennypdrinnon.blogspot.com/2013/11/captain-america-goes-to-devil.html

Best Wishes, Dale D.

THE GONZO BLOG DOO-DAH MAN IS COOKING ON GAS

The Gonzo Daily - Tuesday

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Last night Richard and I drank a little wine and watched 'An adventure in space and time', the dramatisation of the struggle to start Dr Who all those years ago. It was touching, moving, thought-provoking and left you feeling enriched from watching it. In short, everything that the much touted 50th anniversary show wasn't. I wouldn't go as far as some people and say that it was the most boring episode ever, but it was disappointingly unremarkable. Our intern of a couple of years ago, Saskia, is back as of today, and we are delighted to have her return. The next few months will be interesting for her...

 

Another visit to our old friend Thom the World Poet
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/11/thom-world-poet-daily-poem_26.html

 

Today's Track of the Day is by Judge Smith
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/11/the-gonzo-track-of-day-judge-smith.html

 

Steve Hackett: An intimate chat with the prodigious guitarist of 'Genesis'
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/11/steve-hackett-intimate-chat-with.html

 

Stephen Stills, Kenny Wayne Shepherd and Richie Furay Perform "For What It's Worth" on 'Austin City Limits'
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/11/stephen-stills-kenny-wayne-shepherd-and.html

 

Hawkwind to play animal charity show
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/11/hawkwind-to-play-animal-charity-show.html

 

Yes Drummer Alan White Very Excited About Band’s Rock Hall Nomination
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/11/yes-drummer-alan-white-very-excited.html

 

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*  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?

CFZ PEOPLE: Saskia England the CFZ Intern

She was with us for a week two years ago, but now work placements beckon and she is back. Like her counterpart Sheri she is studying Animal Management at college.....

CFZ PEOPLE: Robin Pyatt Bellamy

Happy Birthday honeypie

OLL LEWIS: Yesterday's News Today

Yesterday’s News Today
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On this day in 1977 Southern Television's audio transmission was hacked by a UFO enthusiast calling himself Vrillon. In the audio, heard during the ITN news, Vrillon claimed to be a representative of the Intergalactic Association and requested that all weapons of evil be removed from the planet. You can read more about this interesting incident here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vrillon

And now the news:

Poisonous Spiders Found In Grapes At Supermarkets ...

Bear Cubs Play 'Ring Around The Rosie,' And We All...

Leopard group seeks crowdfunding for new camera sy...

Nature Studies: Could we one day see pine martens ...

Merseyside red squirrels show signs of pox resista...

Canada's refusal to protect polar bears comes unde...

Changing food source bodes ill for whales, cod

Mice with just two 'male' genes father babies

I suspect Vrillon might have been influenced by this fine song:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_BrSVOOK610

CRYPTOLINK: The Tasmanian Tiger is not extinct

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. 

The thylacine is not extinct.

I say this without reservation. I don’t suppose the thylacine (or Tasmanian tiger) remains extant, or imagine, or even hope it is; I know categorically that the thylacine exists, because I have seen it in the flesh. I have also heard it and smelt it over the past 20 years and handled some mighty convincing eyewitness reports along the way. I have written extensively about the animal for various newspapers over the years, and my first book, Tiger Tales, was a collection of stories concerning old bushmen I interviewed, their sightings and recollections of the tiger as well as other sightings spanning the past 100 years.

But I am not relying on the testimony of others to convince me this animal is extant, I am backing my own judgement in declaring what I have actually observed.

It appears that I do this at risk of my own reputation, for I am only too aware that once I declare these truths, the sceptic brigade — bless their atheistic little hearts — immediately pounce like ravening wolves, gnashing their teeth, frothing at the mouth and hammering their extinction drums in my face in doing their level best to make me out to be a raving imbecile, a serial hoodwinker, or at worst a sadly disillusioned senile old tiger hunter who should be committed to an asylum. But honestly, such flattery, such adulation, such hero worship, such reverence is like the proverbial water off the duck’s back.

I know what I know, and that apparently is a darned lot more than my sceptics.

I have been searching for the thylacine for the past 46 years. The highlight was when I actually came face-to-face with a Tasmanian tiger in March 1995 in the Weld Valley wilderness of south-west Tasmania.

I well remember back in the 1940s-’50s era being drawn time and time again to the museum’s thylacine display, a particularly imposing and educational diorama of a group of thylacines in a splendid bush setting; I have never forgotten it. Although I didn’t place any great emphasis on the exhibit at the time, it remained firmly fixed in my memory, and it may have somehow provided the nucleus for my later adulation of this unique animal. Visiting the museum several years ago I was invited down to the storage area and inquired as to what had become of the thylacine diorama exhibit, but apparently no one knew where it was, if indeed it still existed.

Read on...