Better without the beak? http://img188.imageshack.us/img188/9683/schmawybirdnobeak.jpg

In reply to this comment by alien_concept:
When I saw your avatar small in the comment thread, I thought you'd transposed Serious Cat onto the owls face. That would be so frickin cool if you could mate!

I had a Rubber Band Bird once. It would attach it's beak to a branch or fence post, start walking backwards, and launch itself into the air like a slingshot.

Very stunning flier. Kept getting wrapped around my morning newspaper though.

Thank you, dear furriend!

In reply to this comment by kronosposeidon:
*promote

There's nothing to give it away other than its beak and eyes.......and the fact that it's shaped like a bird.

IT'S GONE!!! OH NOOO! WHAT HAPPENED?
ALL I SEE IS BUT A LONE FEATHER RUSTLING FAINTLY IN THE WIND... AMID A LANDSCAPE THAT NOW LOOKS SO HARSH AND FOREIGN.

will the colourfully-beaked bird ever return? did it die? how long will the camera stay?

so many questions.. :{

for those who cant view. here's a live update.
one of the birds have a feather stuck on its beak. he (or she) is poking around a little for a bug or two to eat. now he is taking a nap.

I'm getting rather annoyed at the feather that has stuck on its beak.

Those two-legged, large-beaked, pink and yellow striped chicken-monster things with spiked tails, from Golden Axe. Yeah, I'd totally ride that.

Humming Bird

by D.H. Lawrence


I can imagine, in some otherworld
Primeval-dumb, far back
In that most awful stillness, that only gasped and hummed,
Humming-birds raced down the avenues.

Before anything had a soul,
While life was a heave of Matter, half inanimate,
This little bit chipped off in brilliance
And went whizzing through the slow, vast, succulent stems.

I believe there were no flowers, then,
In the world where the humming-bird flashed ahead of creation.
I believe he pierced the slow vegetable veins with his long beak.

Probably he was big
As mosses, and little lizards, they say were once big.
Probably he was a jabbing, terrifying monster.
We look at him through the wrong end of the long telescope of Time,
Luckily for us.

Someone should tell that guy to buy his bird a seed ball, so it can wear its beak down.

i was a full-on vegan, for a year.
because the girl i was dating was. it's not that i wanted to impress her or anything. but i wasn't going to go cooking meat in the home we shared, which to her would stink.

besides, i found it easy to walk away from anyway. truth is that the tofu-burgers and such, have now had decades to improve since their inception, and are now nearly indistinguishable.

i know one sticky point for a lot of people (though most don't actually realize it) is that it's not the eating of meat, or cheese, etc, that's immoral. because in order for an organism to live, some other organism generally has to die, even if only at the cellular level.

no, the real problem is what modern 'farms' have had to resort to, to feed so many of us, in the way we've grown accustomed to. the factory farms. it's ugly shit to look at, and thus easy to detach oneself from. having baby chicks grabbed by machines, like something out of The Matrix, so that their beaks can be half-burned-off.

but there is hope, mink. things change. even if agonizingly slowly.
and often, only when something personal finally happens.

It's beak was too pointy. Commercially raised chickens have their beaks blunted far more than that so they don't kill each other. I wonder how this lawsuit went?

Odd I know, but looking at that beak I was just waiting for this guy to get his eye pecked out...beautiful bird though.

That is so freakin cool.
Id like to think the squeaks at the end was the bird acknowledging the awesomeness that was its new beak, but man...its just a bird.

>> ^therealblankman:
Don't be down on the brother, that bird was red. Everybody knows that's Green Lantern's kryptonite.


Darth Blankfist informs me that I was mistaken and that in fact it's Yellow that is Green Lantern's kryptonite. In that case I withdraw my defense- Green Lantern is a wuss.

edit: but the bird's beak was yellow. I'm torn.