Monty the Duck

 

This is Monty.

"Hello Monty!"

Monty is convinced that he is a duck.

He isn't.

Bonus -

Nope. 

Who's a Pretty Boy?

 Proving that you can mix stripes and checks in a single outfit, Mt Tony Houston and his best friend Tweety-Pie.

Bonus - 

I'm A Geese Goose.

 

RIS?

For those who need a clue...

I'm a Geese Goose

Also True

Bonus - Owls in Towels

Meet The Bird

 

The cheeky chappy in the snazzy shirt and cardigan combo is Lawrence "Larry"

The cutie in the snow white jacket is Marlena.

The Bird?  Captain Pickle. No-one knew the origin of the name, but it suited him.

Bonus - When even the vending machine gods are against you.

Click for big

Perfectly Pleasant Pheasant

 

I believe that his name is Edgar.

Edgar Obviously.

Bonus - Persian Demons from a Book of Magic and Astrology (1921)

Bonus 2 - Pranking the Library

Two Weeks Ago...

 

...I met Benny the Harris Hawk.

Top Bloke.

Bonus - 

Branch Manager and Assistant to the Branch Manager

Seagull with Attitude.

 

"You Lookin' At Me?"

"Well,   Don't!"

Bonus - Barking Mad

St Andrews Day

 

Yes, today is St Andrews Day, Patron Saint of Scotland (and Ukraine, Barbados and Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople, if we're being obsessive.)

But today's slide links in with the Scotland connection.

This is the Blue-Billed Water Grouse, the back-up national bird of Scotland.  One interesting fact is that the Blue-Billed Water Grouse cannot, in fact, float.  Instead, they use their 55-inch long legs to stand on the bottom of ponds, and flex their knees to give the illusion of floating.

Bonus - 

Daft Old Coot

 

Yes, another slide of a bird on this blog this week.

But what isn't as obvious, is that this silly old bird is actually walking out of the pond... It's a Cootus Reversus, the Backwards Walking Coot, native of Northern Australia.

Bonus - Oddly Terrifying.

The Quivering Pheasant

 

The Quivering Grouse is a native of the Kamchatka Peninsula, of Easter Russia.

Specifically, it lives in the volcanic region, where it uses the heat from the lava-flows to stay warm. When capture for western zoos, it quivers (technically, shivers) while awaiting its inevitable death from Hypothermia.

Breeding programmes have been successful when the flocks have been allowed to roam under the reactors of nuclear power station, but that does bring other hazards.

Bonus - 

Name That Bird

 

Answer - His name is Derrick.

So, now you know.

Bonus - Why we should all love wasps

Young Gerald at Play

 Ir was only when I played with the contrast / lighting of the slide that I realised that Gerald was accompanied by a large black ... Rooster.

It was tempting to post something about BBC...but no. I'm not that childish.

Bonus - Virgin Media - fix within 24 hours?  My Arse, you incompetent cockwombles. 

Peacock

 

No, I've not been playing with the colour settings of this. I suspect that the unexpected colours are just Transmitted light vs Reflected Light.

Bonus - in 1524, a statue of the Virgin Mary at the Cathedral in Riga, Latvia, was accused of being a witch. They put it on trial by throwing it in the river. Since the wooden statue floated, they declared it guilty and burned it.

Bonus 2 - The League of Gentlemen - Remake???

The Strange Bird

 

As regular reader will know, I'm infuriated by slides with no information on them, and also slightly narked by one set of slides with....a lot of contextual info. From that jungle set of slides, we have...

Mary Jane feeds the strange bird whose call scared all of us as we rowed into the jungle camp in the total darkness if the night before.

Your suggestion on the identity of the bird are welcomed.

Bonus - 

Bird on the Beach

 Time for another Tedious Tuesday slide.  Today, from the hands of Master Photographer Miles Phillips, a composition entitled "The Futility of Progress (Bird in a Beach)".

Pretentious Pillock.


Bonus - The Seventies were a Strange Time.

Portrait of Jan with Seagull

Aaaarrrggghhh !

The Birds !!!!


Ahem.   A moody shot featurig the snacking Jan, and an un-named seagull.

Bonus -

Colin, The Surprised Pigeon

Colin is Surprised.

Surprised by the absolute goat***k of a mess that Brexit is turning ito.

Stupid Colin.  It was inevitable.

Bonus 1 - Best Christmas Present Ever?

Bonus 2 - Reddit - Question Asked - Answer Given.

Nothing Prohibiting Fishing!

And there's always some poacher who'll take advantage of it.

I'm no expert, but I believe that that is a male Mulligan's Heron, normally only seen in Southern Libya.

Bonus - Trump’s Family Fortune Originated in a Canadian Gold-Rush Brothel

Bonus 2 - Arthur 2 Stroke & the Chart Commandos Hawaii-5-0 from 1982

Pigeon, surprised by news that Donald Trump is President.

The title explains it all.


Well, almost.  The pigeon's name is August.

Bonus : Bunker

Bonus 2 : One of these things is not like the others.

Derek The Seagull

This is Derek.

He's a seagull.

And that's basically all that I know.


There are those folk who claim that Brian played the role of The Stig for three years, but there are some obvious problems with that theory.

Bonus - Clever Girl.... oh.